Gianfranco Calligarich

Broschiertes Buch

Last Summer in the City

Beschreibung

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author Andre Aciman.

Autor

Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea, and grew up in Milan, then moved 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 the author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which won the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize. Last Summer in the City is the first of his novels to be translated into English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 133mm x 207mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9781250849250
• ISBN-10: 125084925X
• Artikelnr.: 62541937

Rezensionen

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