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1) Me and you
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Pretending to his socially conscious parents that he has been invited to an exclusive ski vacation with popular kids, 14-year-old misfit Lorenzo anticipates a week of welcome isolation at a family apartment building only to endure psychological confrontation at the hands of his estranged half-sister.
3) Anna
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Summer has ended, but the heat will not let up. Ash has covered everything. Weeds and wheat grow around the cars abandoned in the road. Anna and Astor live in the house behind the fence, surviving in a world stripped of adults. The rooms are piled high with rubbish. Their mother's skeleton lies perfect on the bed. And every few days, Anna must head out beyond the fence for provisions and medicine. Each time she goes, she may never come back.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons. The economically depressed village of Varrano, where Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking, out-of-work father, Rino, is a world away from the picturesque towns of travel-brochure Italy. When Rino and his rough-edged cronies Danilo and Quattro Formaggi come up with a plan to reverse...
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