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Il dolore perfetto
“The Perfect Pain” (title translated by AI)
Ugo Riccarelli (born 1954)
English editions
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At the end of the nineteenth century a young anarchist teacher, known only as the Maestro, comes from Sapri in the south to a village in Tuscany. There he joins his life to the widow Bartoli, who gives him many children with emblematic names such as Ideale, Libertà and Cafiero. In the same place lives the family of Ulisse Bertorelli, a pig dealer whose clan bears the names of Homeric heroes and reads the Iliad and the Odyssey around the fire. The two families are destined to meet, through the love of Annina and Cafiero, and their indomitable members cross the whole history of Italy, from the socialist dream to the end of the Second World War.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 325 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Family, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, late 19th to mid 20th century
- First published
- 2004 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788804524113 (original)
- More
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