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Accanto alla tigre
“Beside the Tiger” (title translated by AI)
Lorenzo Pavolini (born 1964)
English editions
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Lorenzo, a writer working in theatre, magazines and radio, lives in Rome's Esquilino district, where a multi-ethnic Italy of markets and Chinese shops lives beside a far-right social centre. He carries another conflict inside him, rooted in his surname. As a boy, in a history book, he saw the photo of Piazzale Loreto with Mussolini, Claretta Petacci and other leaders hanging upside down, and among them a man under a sign reading Pavolini: his grandfather Alessandro, a refined intellectual, founder of the Black Brigades and one of Fascism's most ruthless figures, whom his family had passed off as an airman killed in the war.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 243 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2010 by Fandango Libri
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788860441454 (original)