Edén: vida imaginada

Near the end of the Second World War, with the Americans about to enter a crumbling Italy, a Florentine family of four, a handsome and willful father and mother, an elder brother, Félix, and young Alex, leaves Europe for South America. Told in the third person, the story follows Alex through unsettled homes and crossings in Rome, Barcelona, Caracas, Montevideo and Buenos Aires and on the ships between them. Restless, talkative and unable to stop inventing stories, Alex never quite matches his family's grace, admires the Duce and follows the Axis victories like football scores. The journey leads to a southern summer at the Edén, a grand hotel in the hills of Córdoba province in Argentina, home to a community of exiles, where on the edge of adolescence he first feels the force of love.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

271 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina, Second World War

First published

2006 by Fondo de Cultura Económica

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9789681680855 (original)