| Lost Words Contributor(s): Gardini, Nicola (Author), Moore, Michael F. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811224767 ISBN-13: 9780811224765 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015038045 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moore, Michael F.: - Michael F. Moore, chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Award, has recently translated Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi and Agostino by Alberto Moravia.Gardini, Nicola: - Nicola Gardini lives in Oxford and Milan. Lost Words was awarded the Viareggio Prize and the Zerilli-Mariṃ/City of Rome Prize. A Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, Gardini teaches Italian literature. |
