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Story of My People
Storia della mia gente
Edoardo Nesi (born 1964)
Translated by Antony Shugaar
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Story of My People
Other Press · United States · 2012 · 163 pages
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A writer who for years ran his family's textile firm in Prato tells how the successes of Italy's small provincial industry, built by unpolished, down-to-earth entrepreneurs and their skilled weavers, have become little more than a distant memory. Against a background of economic decline, half-hearted economists and frightened politicians face the tornado of globalization, while Prato fills with Chinese workshops. Between novel and essay, autobiography and economic treatise, he describes what it means to belong to the first generation of Italians in centuries that will be poorer than its parents.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 161 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 2000s
- First published
- 2010 by Bompiani
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788845263521 (original)
9781590515549 (Other Press, United States)
- More
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