Last Summer in the City

Informationen zum Autor Gianfranco Calligarich was born in Asmara, Eritrea and grew up in Milan before moving to Rome where he worked as a journalist and screenwriter. He wrote many successful TV shows for Rai, the national public broadcasting company of Italy, and founded the Teatro XX Secolo in 1994. He is author of many novels, including La malinconia dei Crusich, which was the winner of the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Last Summer in the City is the first of his novels to be translated into English. Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, and has translated more than a hundred books from French, Italian, and Spanish. Klappentext This cult classic of Italian literature is witty, romantic, tragic and endlessly quotable. It is the first novel by this award-winning author to be published in English. With a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name . Zusammenfassung This cult classic of Italian literature is witty, romantic, tragic and endlessly quotable. It is the first novel by this award-winning author to be published in English. With a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name.

Product details

• Authors: Gianfranco Calligarich
• Assisted by: Howard Curtis (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781529042290
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-4229-0
• No. of pages: 179
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / City Life, Rome, Fiction in translation, Italy, Family & relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1960 to c 1970, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1960 to c 1969