Setenta acrílico treinta lana / Seventy Acrylic Thirty Wool (Heroes Modernos) - Softcover

Di Grado, Viola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8492837349 ISBN 13: 9788492837342

Publisher: Alpha Decay, 2011

Synopsis

After the death of her father during an unending Leeds winter, Camelia, the young protagonist of this novel, feels as though she is moving through a distant and closed world--a world of absolute consumerism and stereotypical behaviors, where freedom is encapsulated in a garbage can, or in the madness of a mother who lost her husband and her mind on the same day. During the long winter, Camelia learns that only in the language and prose of a novel--not in clothes, purchases, and dreams--will she find hope. And when she meets Wen, a young Chinese man who begins to teach her his language, the first rays of light will begin to penetrate Camelia's dark world. This debut novel from one of the most promising voices in Italian literature won the Campiello First Novel award and was a finalist for the Strega, Italy's most prestigious literary prize.

Winner Of:

Rapallo-Carige Opera Prima Prize 2011
Campiello Opera Prima Prize 2011
Premio Strega 2011, runner-up

After the death of her father during an unending Leeds winter, Camelia, the young protagonist of this novel, feels as though she is moving through a distant and closed world--a world of absolute consumerism and stereotypical behaviors, where freedom is encapsulated in a garbage can, or in the madness of a mother who lost her husband and her mind on the same day. During the long winter, Camelia learns that only in the language and prose of a novel--not in clothes, purchases, and dreams--will she find hope. And when she meets Wen, a young Chinese man who begins to teach her his language, the first rays of light will begin to penetrate Camelia's dark world. This debut novel from one of the most promising voices in Italian literature won the Campiello First Novel award and was a finalist for the Strega, Italy's most prestigious literary prize.

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Review

"Written with an incredible poetic quality, in which each sentence is written as though it were the last. It's so brilliant at times that each sentence could very well be the last. Its triumph is in making the reader ignore his surroundings in favor of what he's reading." "El Pais""

"Adark, profound, and evocative literary debut." "El Mundo""

"Written with an incredible poetic quality, in which each sentence is written as though it were the last. It's so brilliant at times that each sentence could very well be the last. Its triumph is in making the reader ignore his surroundings in favor of what he's reading." --El Pais

"A dark, profound, and evocative literary debut." --El Mundo

About the Author

Viola di Grado is an Italian writer. She is the author of Cuore cavo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alpha Decay
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8492837349
• ISBN 13: 9788492837342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249