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Lost Words (Paperback)
Nicola Gardini; Translated by Michael F Moore
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R389
Discovery Miles 3 890
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Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the
working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each
other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable
thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the
building, the world contained within these walls is tiny,
hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds
escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in
and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence
on Chino. Ms. Lynd-an elderly, erudite British woman-comes to
nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the
mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that
he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of-age
tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous
social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on
language, literature, and culture.
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