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L’illusione del bene
“The Illusion of Good” (title translated by AI)
Cristina Comencini (born 1956)
English editions
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Mario, a television journalist pushed out to radio after the right came to power, is a hollowed-out, disappointed man. Nearly ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall he has not come to terms with the collapse of the communist ideal he believed in, and cannot understand why no one shares his obsession with what communism really was. He believed in family just as passionately, raising his wife's children and then their own, but his marriage failed, and his love for his three children is his only certainty. A chance meeting with Sonja, a young Russian pianist, draws him into a tragic, mysterious story.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 209 pages in the original
- Genres
- Politics, Love (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2007 by Feltrinelli
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
9788807017308 (original)