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A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirs...

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Main Author: Mari, Michele, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Moore, Brian Robert, 1992- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Italian.
Published: Sheffield, UK : And Other Stories, 2024.
Subjects:
Grounds maintenance > Fiction.
Intergenerational relations > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Italy > Fiction.
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Summary:A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs and the unquiet dead.
Item Description:Translation of: Verderame.
Originally published in Italian as Verderame in 2007.
Physical Description:216 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:9781913505905
1913505901