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Swimming to Elba
Acciaio
Silvia Avallone (born 1984)
Translated by Antony Shugaar
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Swimming to Elba
Viking · United States · 2012
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In the concrete blocks of Via Stalingrado in Piombino, being fourteen is hard. If your father is a good-for-nothing or breaks his back in the steelworks that give bread and despair to half the town, the most you can hope for is a night at the skating rink or your name written on a bench. Anna and Francesca, inseparable friends, know this well. As their bodies change, they choose not to hide but to throw their beauty in everyone's face, hoping it will make them someone, with the island of Elba visible across the water, so near and out of reach. Then love arrives, and arrives badly, and their invincible friendship begins to crack.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 357 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 2000s
- First published
- 2010 by Rizzoli
- Author's age
- 26 when first published
- ISBN
9788817037631 (original)
9780670023585 (Viking, United States)
- More
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