Last Summer in the City
(Sprache: Englisch)
This cult classic of Italian literature is witty, romantic, tragic and endlessly quotable. It is the first novel by this award-winning author to be published in English. With a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.
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This cult classic of Italian literature is witty, romantic, tragic and endlessly quotable. It is the first novel by this award-winning author to be published in English. With a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.
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A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your NameIn the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved to Rome for work. Soon unemployed, he has spent his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, romantic entanglements, and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends. Rome is indifferent. Leo drifts, aimless and alone.
On the evening of his thirtieth birthday, he meets Arianna, a young woman who is both fragile and seductive. All night they drive the city in Leo's run-down Alfa Romeo, talking and talking. They eat brioche for breakfast, drink through the dawn, drive to the sea and back. A whirlwind beginning. This is the story of the year Leo fell in love and lost everything.
Intense, brief, witty and devastating, Last Summer in the City is a newly rediscovered classic of Italian literature. Translated into English for the first time by Howard Curtis, Gianfranco Calligarich's romantic and despairing debut is reminiscent of The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises and The Catcher in the Rye.
Autoren-Porträt von Gianfranco Calligarich
Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea and grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked as a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote many successful TV shows for Rai, the national public broadcasting company of Italy, and founded the Teatro XX Secolo in 1994. He is author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which was the winner of the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Last Summer in the City is the first of his novels to be translated into English. Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, and has translated more than a hundred books from French, Italian, and Spanish. Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, and has translated more than a hundred books from French, Italian, and Spanish.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gianfranco Calligarich
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2021, Main Market Ed., 192 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Howard Curtis
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529042267
- ISBN-13: 9781529042269
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The true quality of this novel is the way it enlightens, with a desperate clearness, a relationship between a man and a city, that is, between crowd and loneliness Natalia Ginzburg
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