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Un’educazione milanese
“A Milanese Education” (title translated by AI)
Alberto Rollo (born 1951)
English editions
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An autobiographical exploration that is also the story of the city that inspired it. It begins in the 1950s with a childhood in the new outskirts of Milan: a father's 'lessons in working-class culture', a mother's tales of the magic of dressmaking, a communist family and a Catholic one, roots in Lombardy and in Lecce, tram and motorbike trips, the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Pope John, the parish club, the cinema and first loves among freight yards. Then come the years of youth, with a friend who is a master of life, the great workers' struggles and the energy of the radical left, set against today's city of fashion and new skylines.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 317 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1950s onwards
- First published
- 2016 by Manni
- Author's age
- 65 when first published
- ISBN
9788862667401 (original)