Lost Words (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
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....
Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other....
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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. Lyndan elderly, erudite British womancomes to nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of-age tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on language, literature, and culture.
Autoren-Porträt von Nicola Gardini
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nicola Gardini
- 2016, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Michael F. Moore
- Verlag: New Directions
- ISBN-10: 0811224775
- ISBN-13: 9780811224772
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2016
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