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The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan [electronic resource]

Domenico Starnone2024
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From the National Book Award Finalist Domenico Starnone comes a new novel about childhood, memory, obsession, and the fictions we live by. Children can be cruel, and children can love as passionately and obsessively as adults. These two observations combine, igniting the imagination of Italy’s greatest contemporary novelist and producing a seemingly candid novel that belies remarkable psychological depths and infinite degrees of enchantment. Imagine a child, a daydreamer, one of those boys who is always gazing out windows. His adoring grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at the building opposite, watching a black-haired girl as she dances recklessly on her balcony. He is in love. And a love like this can push a child to extremes. He can become an explorer or a cabin boy, a cowboy or castaway; he can fight duels to the death, or even master unfamiliar languages. His grandmother has told him about the entrance to the underworld, and he k...
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[Place of publication not identified] : Europa Editions, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (144 pages)
Audience:
General / adult
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9798889660484
Language:
English
BRN:
524114
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