Bambino a Roma

Over his bed hangs a map of the world, on which the boy plots journeys now that the sea crossing and its seasickness are behind him; soon he is plotting real routes on two wheels through the streets around his building. He remembers first desires, penalty duels with Amadeo from the fruit shop, slipping away from school, the notes and letters he wrote to Sandy L., an operation on his appendix, and his parents and brothers and sisters, in a book poised between recollection and invention.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

168 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, 1953–1954

First published

2024 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9788535938760 (original)