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È giusto obbedire alla notte
“It Is Right to Obey the Night” (title translated by AI)
Matteo Nucci (born 1970)
English editions
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On the margins of Rome, where the Tiber bends before running to the sea, men and women live among shacks and barges, running a makeshift trattoria and doing odd jobs, a community outside time. There are Cesare, one of the last Roman eel fishermen, his brother Guido, a strange reader of sacred texts, Victoria, a South American cook, and two girls from the east. For some years they have taken in a man in flight whom they call 'the doctor', because he seems to have come to tend those who live there. Slowly the story of his life emerges, of his wife Anna and his daughter Teresa, his losses, his courage and his terror.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 363 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2017 by Ponte alle Grazie
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9788868336660 (original)