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“Friends Hold All Things in Common” (title translated by AI)

Matteo Nucci (born 1970)

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For Lorenzo, his father Leonardo was an affectionate and unfathomable man whose truth always escaped him, perhaps because he preferred not to find it and see his own reflected in it. Leonardo's death forces the son to choose between following in his footsteps, living a life of impulses and betrayals, or attempting a clear, hard-won honesty and constancy in his affections. During a summer between Rome and Greece no one tells him the whole truth, not the women in his life, Sara and Carolina, nor his elusive mother, nor his fragile sister, nor the friend he betrayed, as he tries to discover who his father really was.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

217 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, Greece

First published

2009 by Ponte alle Grazie

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9788862200905 (original)