Spatriati: A Novel

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Synopsis
Following two outcasts&’ tumultuous friendship, this brilliant, Strega Prize–winning novel captures the probing, passionate nature of a generation of global citizens, exploring sexuality and identity.I never understood, of the two of us, which one was warm and which cold, but I consider myself lucky to have met my opposite front in Claudia Fanelli, the spatriata, the name people around here use for the uncertain, the odd, the unclassifiable and sometimes the shiftless or orphans, as well as unmarried men or women, vagrants and vagabonds, or even, in the case that concerns us, the emancipated.Claudia enters Francesco&’s life on a sunny morning, in the school&’s entrance hall: it&’s a bolt of lightning, the birth of an entirely new kind of desire, which is, above all, the desire for life. Claudia is peerless and self-assured, extravagant; Francesco is introverted, burning with erotic curiosity, dominated by rustic faith, uncertain. She provokes him: &“Did you know that your mother and my father were lovers?&” But in the eyes of that meek boy, she glimpses a spark of rebellion: she sees herself in him. They become adults together, in a symbiotic game of escape and pursuit, in which they always end up finding each other.Mario Desiati captures the complexities of a fluid, uprooted generation: his own. A generation around forty years old today, who weren&’t afraid to stray far from home to find their place in the world, who truly feel like citizens of Europe. With a poetic yet biting style, capable of great tenderness, Desiati depicts the myriad forms that desire can assume when given free rein. Without any fear of plucking the chords of romanticism, without any false modesty as he delves into the coarsest details of sensuality and instinct.
Copyright:
2021

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781635424041
Related ISBNs:
9781635424034
Publisher:
Other Press
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Copyrighted By:
Giulio Einaudi editore
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Michael F. Moore

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