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Michele Mari (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2024
And Other Stories (Verlag)
978-1-913505-90-5 (ISBN)

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A 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, doppelgangers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.

Winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize

Winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Prize

A 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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2023
Übersetzer	Brian Robert Moore
Verlagsort	High Wycombe
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	213 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-913505-90-1 / 1913505901
ISBN-13	978-1-913505-90-5 / 9781913505905
Zustand	Neuware