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Ragazzo italiano
“Italian Boy” (title translated by AI)
Gian Arturo Ferrari (born 1944)
English editions
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Ninni, a child of the postwar years, grows up through the hardships of provincial Lombardy, still in its first industrial revolution, the twilight of rural life in Emilia and the burst of energy of social-democratic Milan. Surrounded and raised by women, he learns the pitfalls of affection and the suffering hidden even in the closest ties. As a boy, thanks to his grandmother, he discovers the immense continent of experience that books open before him, and as he gains a hard-won independence he carves out, through curiosity and the will to know, his own place in an Italy where school is the lever of social advancement.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 310 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1948–1962
- First published
- 2020 by Feltrinelli
- Author's age
- 76 when first published
- ISBN
9788807033766 (original)