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Autobiogrammatica
Tommaso Giartosio (born 1963)
English editions
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There is a secret link between the two lines along which a life unfolds: on one side learning the alphabet, names, family words, insults, jokes, foreign languages, secret codes and poetry; on the other the overwhelming love for one's parents, school as a journey into the unknown, the seductions and delays of friendship and desire, and the struggle for a place in an Italy of privilege, prejudice and political and private violence. A writer traces every thread that joins these two strands, asking which letters taste of sugar on our lips, which words hold our fears, and telling a single, shared life as the story of a language.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 440 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2024 by minimum fax
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
9788833894867 (original)