El libro de las casas

El libro de las casas

Bajani, Andrea

The story of a man through the houses in which he has lived. A character whose name we don't get to know -it's just Me-, but we do know all the details of his life. That is reconstructed in a succession of fragments: the complex relationship with his violent father, the presence of the frightened mother, the turtle that lives in the patio, the family's emigration to the north, the stays in foreign cities, the marriage, the social ascent, the relationship with a lover, the intimate space in which he takes refuge to write... Each one of these stages, each one of the emotions of that character -the sentimental education, the desires, the disappointments, the love , betrayals, loneliness...-, are related to a house. In the background, two historical events, two bloody events, provide the context: the kidnapping and murder of El Prisionero and the murder of El Poeta, who are none other than Aldo Moro and Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose violent deaths define the lead years of Italy. And it is that if the novel is above all the story of a man throughout his life, it is also, in a way, the history of Italy in the last fifty years, because the fragments that make up this novel are framed between the seventy of the last century and a more or less distant future in which only the turtle will continue to live.

Author
Bajani, Andrea
Subject
Literature > Narrative in other languages
Genre
Narrative themes > Interior life
EAN
9788433981233
ISBN
978-84-339-8123-3
Edition
1
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pages
288 
High
22.0 cm
Weight
14.0 cm
Release date
14-09-2022
Language
Spanish 
Series
Panorama de narrativas 
Number
1085 
Paperback edition
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Bajani, Andrea (aut.)

  • Bajani, Andrea
    Andrea Bajani (Roma, 1975) es autor de novelas, cuentos, reportajes y obras de teatro, así como traductor del inglés y francés. Ha sido galardonado con el Premio Bagutta, el Premi   Read more

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