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“We Hoped for More” (title translated by AI)
Pietro Spirito (born 1961)
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Just after the war, a former Japanese soldier who ended up in occupied northern Italy and was captured by the Americans learns that Hiroshima, his city, has been wiped out. He chooses to stay in a small Veneto village at the foot of the mountains, and in the years before the boom becomes, for the village boys, a teacher of life and of martial arts.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 188 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, late 1940s
- First published
- 2003 by Guanda
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
9788882462017 (original)