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“If They Had” (title translated by AI)
Vittorio Sermonti (born 1929)
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One May morning in 1945 three, or perhaps four, partisans with machine guns turn up at a small villa near the Milan trade fair looking for an officer of the Fascist republic, or perhaps three; they find him, a long exchange of views follows, and they leave. From this domestic episode unwind seventy years of a fifteen-year-old brother's memories, confused but meticulous: the blood and cold of the war, the sad farce of dreaming himself a hero, then 'going over to the enemy' by joining the Communist Party, his relationship of mutual protection with his Fascist father, his mother's feudal family, misplaced loves, books, theatre, music and football.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 210 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Autofiction, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1945 onwards
- First published
- 2016 by Garzanti
- Author's age
- 87 when first published
- ISBN
9788811670179 (original)