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ISBN-10: 1906548366
ISBN-13: 9781906548360
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publish Date: 01/04/2011
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 4.80" W, 1.00" H

How I Lost the War

Translator: Howard Curtis

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Overview

Time runs slowly in a sleepy Tuscan village once renowned for its thermal baths … until the arrival of Ottone Gattai, a ruthless businessman who has come to this idyllic countryside to revive the legendary baths as an ultra-modern tourist resort. appalled by the transformation of his beloved birthplace, federico, scion of the landowning Cremona family, decides to take action. When peaceful protest proves ineffective, he and his girlfriend Lea launch a guerilla war against the forces of globalisation. This richly satirical first novel by a brilliant young Italian writer is the story of this strange war.

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Reviews
"Here is life, death, love and destiny, the transitory and the territory, the ancient community and the current destruction, exaltation and defeat, all of which is told with intensity, passion, irony." - Alberto Asor Rosa, La Repubblica

"A thought-provoking and beautiful book." - Enrica Brocardo, Vanity Fair

"A very intriguing novel: internal, poetic, anticonventional and, especially, told with an incredibly promising narrative ambition." - Errico Buonanno, Il Riformista

"Very funny ... Bologna draws a vivid ... picture of village life, with all its affections and petty competitiveness . . . a constantly surprising book." - Independent

"Bologna manages to make you care, and with only a description of where a character stands or which direction they blew their cigarette smoke." - California Literary Review

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Details

ISBN-10: 1906548366
ISBN-13: 9781906548360
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publish Date: 01/04/2011
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 4.80" W, 1.00" H
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