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Spatriati
Spatriati
Mario Desiati (born 1977)
Translated by Michael F. Moore
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Spatriati
Other Press · United States · 22 October 2024
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Claudia comes into Francesco's life one sunny morning in the school entrance hall, in their small town in Puglia: a revelation, the birth of a new desire that is above all a desire to live. She is solitary but self-assured, eccentric, dresses like a man and is always escaping; he is shy, held back by a faith both dogmatic and uncertain, yet burning with erotic curiosity. She provokes him: did he know that his mother and her father are lovers? They grow up together, quarrelling like fire and water, two 'spatriati', misfits torn between a difficult love for their homeland and the urge to leave for distant cities.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 277 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2021 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9788806247416 (original)
9781635424034 (Other Press, United States)
- More
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