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Das Eidechsenkind
“The Lizard Child” (title translated by AI)
Vincenzo Todisco (born 1964)
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Officially the child must not exist. Lucertola, the lizard child, is at home in Italy, in Ripa, where he chases wasps like all children with his Nonna Assunta, and where a house is waiting to be finished. In the host country he has to hide: under the sideboard, in the wardrobe, under the sofa. Day after day his father goes to the building site, his mother to the factory, while the child lets hours and days go by, measuring the flat with his steps, listening to the neighbours and the children in the courtyard. Until one day he ventures out on secret forays into the stairwell and other flats. A family of seasonal workers in 1960s Switzerland.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 214 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland, Italy, 1960s
- First published
- 2018 by Rotpunktverlag
- Author's age
- 54 when first published
- ISBN
9783858697837 (original)