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“At Least the Hat” (title translated by AI)
Andrea Vitali (born 1956)
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Only a shabby eight-man brass band greets the summer visitors who land in Bellano from the ferry, and the whole town is embarrassed. To give it a music corps worthy of the name it needs a man of vision, someone able to win over the podestà, the town clerk, the local party secretary, the priest and all the notables. A series of unforeseeable circumstances, lucky for some and unlucky for others, may bring to Bellano the accountant Onorato Geminazzi, who lives across the lake in Menaggio with his wife Estenuata and their many children, in a story of cunning and dreams, spite and generosity, gossip and love.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 405 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1920s–1930s
- First published
- 2009 by Garzanti
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9788811686064 (original)
- More
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