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L’età dell’oro
“The Golden Age” (title translated by AI)
Edoardo Nesi (born 1964)
English editions
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It is 2010, and the Italian economic miracle is only a cruel memory. As the small textile firms of Prato die out in silence, Ivo Barrocciai, a bankrupt industrialist who loves life and beautiful women, learns that he has an incurable illness. Instead of fading away like his company, he throws himself into one last venture: having a child, by artificial insemination, with Caterina, a stunning young woman shut away in a psychiatric clinic after an ex-boyfriend put their lovemaking online. His quest unfolds in a mosaic of flashbacks, through the loves of his youth and the rise and fall of the firm his father founded, a mirror of the hopes of a whole country.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 337 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 2010
- First published
- 2004 by Bompiani
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9788845232879 (original)