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Perduto è questo mare
“Lost Is This Sea” (title translated by AI)
Elisabetta Rasy (born 1947)
English editions
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Naples in the 1950s, a city so full of light it seems enchanted, yet devastated by the war and forgotten by history. From there a young girl is suddenly taken away, leaving her father forever in the shadow of an elegant, crumbling house. She believes she has forgotten him, but decades later the death of a beloved friend and mentor, the Neapolitan writer Raffaele La Capria, brings his image back. The two men belonged to the same generation and met different fates, one fulfilled in his books, the other walled up in his solitude; both were enchanted and rejected by the city. Meanwhile the girl grows up as a woman who refuses the rules of the game.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 233 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1950s onwards
- First published
- 2025 by Rizzoli
- Author's age
- 78 when first published
- ISBN
9788817176576 (original)