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Napoli Ferrovia

“Naples Railway Station” (title translated by AI)

Ermanno Rea (born 1927)

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Caracas, fifty-five and born in Venezuela, rules the streets around the Naples central station: his head is shaved, he holds the racist ideas of a skinhead and is converting to Islam, hates the rich, the Americans and the communists, yet helps the down-and-out whenever he can. The narrator, an elderly journalist and old communist back in Naples after many years, meets him and walks with him at night through the most inhospitable heart of the city. Their wanderings become a journey back through time, to the 1940s and 1950s and to their grandparents' age, and a chance to tell each other their lives, including Caracas's desperate love for a heroin addict.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

357 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy

First published

2007 by Rizzoli

Author's age

80 when first published

ISBN

9788817018326 (original)