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The Breaking of a Wave
Chi manda le onde
Fabio Genovesi (born 1974)
Translated by Will Schutt
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The Breaking of a Wave
Europa Editions · United States · 2016 · 471 pages
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On the Versilia coast, between the sea and the Apuan Alps, Luna, an albino girl whose eyes are so pale she needs her imagination to see, searches the beach every day for the wonderful things the sea brings her. Her brother Luca rides the waves on his surfboard and steals the hearts of the local girls, and their mother Serena, beautiful but dressed like a soldier, has raised them alone. When a tsunami of fate casts them adrift, other castaways gather around them: forty-year-old Sandro, who still lives with his parents and gets by on odd jobs, Zot, a mysterious boy from Chernobyl with an out-of-tune accordion, and Ferro, a bitter retired lifeguard.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 391 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2015 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 41 when first published
- ISBN
9788804634737 (original)
9781609453879 (Europa Editions, United States)