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Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Winner of the 2025 PEN Translation PrizeWinner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation PrizeA lonely little boy’s unlikely friendship with his grandparents’ grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-02
Mått:129 x 198 x 21 mm
Vikt:213 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:And Other Stories
ISBN:9781913505905
Översättare:Brian Robert Moore, Brian Robert Moore
Utmärkelser:Winner of Grinzane Cavour Prize 2008

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Michele Mari is one of Italy’s most renowned novelists, poets, and translators. A former professor of Italian literature at the University of Milan, he has translated classic novels by Herman Melville, George Orwell, John Steinbeck and H. G. Wells. Brian Robert Moore is a literary translator whose published and forthcoming translations from the Italian include A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano, Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza and Michele Mari's You, Bleeding Childhood, which was the first book by Mari to be published in English.

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‘There are books before which there came other books, and then there are books before which – and after which, too – there’s nothing else.’ Giorgio Vasta, Nazione Indiana