Life in Peacetime

Francesco Pecoraro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

664 Seiten

2019
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85742-482-2 (ISBN)

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When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry but morbidly attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining ahead and on everything that has happened already in his life to which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations on a Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in 1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. A close-up portrait of an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a secure, middle-class life.

Francesco Pecoraro is an Italian author who was born and lives in Rome. Antony Shugaar is an American journalist and translator who lives in southern California.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Italian List
Übersetzer	Antony Shugaar
Verlagsort	Greenford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 24 mm
Gewicht	1021 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85742-482-3 / 0857424823
ISBN-13	978-0-85742-482-2 / 9780857424822
Zustand	Neuware