- Fiction, general, Romance italiano, New York Times reviewed, Fathers and sons
"On a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, there lives a boy as innocent of sin and the great world as a seabird. Arturo's mother is dead; his father away - we are never quite sure where.
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Character
Grave, intimate, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Elsa Morante
- First published
- April 1, 2002
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Corporation, French & European Pubns, Can Yayinlari
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- English, French, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788806175047
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First sentence
“FIRST OF ALL, I was proud of my name.”
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