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Informationen zum Autor Pietro Grossi! writer and translator! was born in 1978 in Florence and currently lives and works in Tuscany. His collection of short stories! Fists ! and his novel The Break are also published by Pushkin Press. Klappentext A village in the Tuscan hills! a summer of sun and chirping cicadas! and three boys who are utterly different but bound to each other in friendship. Years later! despite being thousands of miles apart! the three have never been closer in spirit. But is it destiny or a more earthly force that is determining the course of their lives? "A fine writer" Tobias Jones, "The Sunday Times" Praise for The Break: "Small and perfectly formed ... reaching its end leaves the reader desirous to start all over again" Amanda Hopkinson, "Independent" Praise for Fists: "There is more power and pathos in this short piece of spare, timeless prose than in most densely-written novels" Daniel Hahn, "Independent" Three boys, three diverging destinies-but what, or who, is pulling the strings? Zusammenfassung A village in the Tuscan hills! a summer of sun and chirping cicadas! and three boys who are utterly different but bound to each other in friendship. Years later! despite being thousands of miles apart! the three have never been closer in spirit. But is it destiny or a more earthly force that is determining the course of their lives?
