Lost Words Paperback / softback
by Nicola Gardini
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:05/02/2016
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- ISBN:9780811224765
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:05/02/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780811224765