If you kept a record of sins /
Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, New York :
Archipelago Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First Archipelago Books edition. |
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| Summary: | Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their lif, when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love. |
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| Item Description: | First published as Se consideri le colpe by Einaudi in 2007. |
| Physical Description: | 200 pages ; 17 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781939810960 1939810965 |