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La traversata notturna
“The Night Crossing” (title translated by AI)
Andrea Canobbio (born 1962)
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Wanting to free himself from memories that keep tormenting him, the narrator sets out on a journey through his city, Turin, turned into a great theatre of memory. His tools are a square map of eighty-one squares, a bundle of love letters and some old diaries. The story is that of an Italian couple after the war: they meet in 1943, he an army engineer back from Russia, she a lover of music and poetry, and marry in 1946. The years of reconstruction become the years of the economic miracle and then of protest, while the father, sinking into depression, digs a tunnel in which he traps himself, his wife and their children.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 520 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2022 by La nave di Teseo
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9788834609774 (original)