Nicola Gardini

Lost Words

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Winner of the Viareggio Prize, a vivid portrait of Italy on the brink of social upheaval in the 1970s.Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence on Chino. Ms. Lynd—an elderly, erudite British… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Moore, Michael F. (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2477-2
EAN: 9780811224772
Produktnummer: 34248322
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 773 KB

Über den Autor

Nicola Gardini lives in Oxford and Milan. Lost Words was awarded the Viareggio Prize and the Zerilli-Marimo/City of Rome Prize. A Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, Gardini teaches Italian literature.