Tito, amor mijo

A ten-year-old boy grows up in the hinterland of Trieste among the Slovene minority in the 1960s, and the story follows him from May to September. At school he struggles to spell Italian words correctly, since with his friends and family he speaks and reads almost only Slovene. At birthday parties his uncles and aunts watch partisan films; when they babysit, they tell grim stories from the Second World War, about a great-aunt blinded by Fascist beatings and a grandmother who still lives with a stray bullet in her head. Above it all are games in the woods, by the rivers and the sea, and the promise that one day he and his mother will meet the Marshal himself, the fairy-tale hero of the family's stories.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

187 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, 1960s

First published

2005 by Litera

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9789616422697 (original)

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