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You, bleeding childhood / by Mari, Michele,1955-author.(CARDINAL)871861; Moore, Robert Brian,translator.;
Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Longbefore the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's mostbeloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and foundit crawling with monsters. Raisedon comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternateuniverse for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers.Compared to the horrors of real life, Long John Silver and Cthulhu made forpositively cuddly company; but little boys raised by beasts may well grow upbeastly-or never grow up at all. Waking or sleeping, the obsessions of Mari's youth seem to haunt his every adult thought. You, Bleeding Childhood standsas his first attempt to catalog this cabinet of wonders. Cultclassics since their first publication, these loosely connected stories standas the ideal introduction to a fantasist on a par with Kafka,Poe, and Borges.
Subjects: Short stories.; Novels.; Mari, Michele, 1955-; Autobiographical fiction, Italian;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Deviation / by D'Eramo, Luce,1925-2001,author.(CARDINAL)790842; Appel, Anne Milano,translator.(CARDINAL)459806;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-347).
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Women fascists; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The Catholic school / by Albinati, Edoardo,author.(CARDINAL)808291; Shugaar, Antony,translator.(CARDINAL)207495;
Christians and lions -- Flesh for fantasies -- Victory is making you suffer -- Struggle of interests in a contest of inequality -- Collective M -- The missing shoulder -- Vergeltungswaffe -- The confessions -- Cosmo -- Like trees planted along the river."A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacre"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Novels.; Catholic schools; Murder;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The life of God (as told by Himself) / by Ferrucci, Franco,1936-(CARDINAL)510393; Rosenthal, Raymond,1915-1995.;
A memoir in which God reveals that he created the world because he was lonely. When a new animal emerged from the apes, he thought he finally found the companion to help him make sense of his unruly creation, but as the centuries pass he feels more and more out of place. By an Italian writer.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Allegories.; God;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fortunate pilgrim / by Puzo, Mario,1920-1999.(CARDINAL)132126;
Lucia Santa came to New York from the mountain farms of Italy because she knew there had to be a better life. But what she finds in the streets of Hell's Kitchen is a life to break a strong woman's heart. Two tragic marriages, six children to support by herself, a fiery-hearted daughter who insists on living and loving as an American, an oldest son who gets involved with the mafia. And through it all, Lucia Santa--wife, widow, mother, grandmother--endures as a woman of incomparable dignity, courage, and passion. Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Lucia Santa is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, "her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time."
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Italian Americans; Immigrants;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 26
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War in my town / by Graziani, E.,1961-author.(CARDINAL)620347;
Bruna is the youngest of seven children, living an idyllic life in a small village in Italy in the 1940s. As the Second World War unfolds Bruna's life remains largely the same. By 1943, her biggest disappointment is that food rationing means there is no cake to celebrate her fourteenth birthday. The Italian leader Mussolini's allegiance to Hitler and the distant reports of fighting seem far away from their lives. But when the Italian people turn against their fascist regime, war comes to their region. Bruna struggles to cope as her brothers become caught up in the resistance, and Nazi soldiers descend to occupy their village. Bruna must help her mother and sisters stand up to the occupying soldiers. Her peaceful life is turned upside down by the fact that her beloved little village is now the centre of the final stage of fighting between the Allies and the Germans, the only front left defended by the Nazis in Italy. Based on a true story.
Subjects: War fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Novels.; Guazzelli, Bruna Pucci; Guazzelli, Bruna Pucci; Teenage girls; World War, 1939-1945; Families; Fascism;
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Casalvento : house of the wind / by Cuillo, Gudrun,author.(CARDINAL)890314;
"Erika Germoglio is a self-made woman who has it all--a successful career and a well-connected fianč--then suddenly has even more. An Italian grandfather she has never met wills to her Casalvento, a house and a vineyard, and Livernano, a medieval village turned bed-and-breakfast, both in the Chianti region of Tuscany. When Erika travels to Italy to settle the affairs of her inheritance, she meets Paolo, Casalvento's intelligent, compassionate, and strikingly handsome estate manager and wine maker. And she learns the inheritance comes with a catch--to keep or sell Casalvento and Livernano, she must live there and learn the business of the two estates for five months. Should she uproot her New York life and embrace all Italy has to offer? And if she chooses Italy, which man will be by her side? Erika struggles with that question while fulfilling the stipulations of the will and trying to make sense of a series of letters left for her by her late grandfather, Craig's unpredictable attitude when she calls home, and her own feelings whenever she sees Paolo. Set in the real Casalvento (House of the Wind) of Radda and Livernano in Chianti Siena, Italy, debut author Gudrun Cuillo's Casalvento will captivate your heart and make you wonder if not only in vino veritas, but also possibly in vino amore e felicỉt."--
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Bed and breakfast accommodations; Wineries;
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Four novels : complete and unabridged ; where angels fear to tread ; the longest journey ; a room with a view ; Howards End / by Forster, E. M.(Edward Morgan),1879-1970.(CARDINAL)144971;
Where angels fear to tread -- The longest journey -- A room with a view -- Howards end.A room with a view: The first part of the novel is set in Florence, Italy and describes a Lucy Honeychurch's confusion at the Pensione Bertolini over her feelings for an Englishman staying at the same hotel. As part two begins, Lucy has returned to Surrey, England to her family home, Windy Corner. Cecil proposes yet again at Windy Corner, and this time she accepts. Lucy meets the Englishman again back in England, and must struggle with her confused feelings.Howard's End: he book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsburg Group; and the Basts, a couple who are struggling members of the lower-middle class.The longest journey: Rickie Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The early promise of his future as a writer comes to nothing as he allows himself to be persuaded into a loveless marriage to Agnes after her finance is killed, and tied to a suffocating job arranged by her brother Herbert.Where angels fear to tread: On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family send Lilia's brother-in-law to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia had already married the Italian and becomes pregnant again.
Subjects: Edwardian novels.; Autobiographical fiction.; Fiction.; Humorous fiction.; British; Culture conflict; Inheritance and succession; Marriage; Middle class; Sisters; Social conflict; Teachers; Young women; Marriage.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A private affair / by Fenoglio, Beppe,1922-1963.(CARDINAL)708699; Curtis, Howard,1949-(CARDINAL)355970;
Includes bibliographical references (page 141).Posthumously published in Italy in 1963, and now translated into English for the very first time, Beppe Fenoglio's World War II novel A Private Affair is regarded as one of the greatest works of 20th-century Italian literature. After the fateful day of September 8,1943 when Italy surrendered to the Allies and was occupied by the Wehrmacht Milton, a university student, joins the anti-German partisan militia in the mountainous areas of the Piedmont. It is a hard life of watches, patrols, ambushes, and close escapes, but Milton seems to live in a kind of daze, heedless of the danger of being captured by Fascist bands, and immersed in his own world of thoughts and memories. History and life are fused together through a masterful use of flashback, while Milton's romantic, obsessive, and desperate quest for love and truth carries a wealth of connotations that still reverberate to this day. Beppe Fenoglio (1922 1963) is best known for his autobiographical work, Johnny the Partisan.
Subjects: War fiction.; Fiction.; College students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tasmania / by Giordano, Paolo,1982-author.(CARDINAL)556108; Shugaar, Antony,translator.(CARDINAL)207495;
"After losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize-winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers. In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the dream of becoming a father, not just a father figure to Lorenza's son. As their marriage strains, Paolo immerses himself in work, traveling to Paris to report on the UN Climate Change Conference in the wake of terrorist attacks that shook the world. His journalism dovetails with a book he hopes to write on the atomic bomb and its survivors, a growing obsession that will take him to cities across Europe and ultimately Japan. Along the way, Paolo interacts with a vibrant cast of characters, each struggling to find their own Tasmania, a safe haven in which to weather the coming crises--global warming, pandemics, authoritarian governments, and wars. He develops a friendship with a brilliant, opinionated physicist, who followed the scientific path Paolo had abandoned, and who will test Paolo's loyalty and values. A stunning return to fiction after How Contagion Works, Paolo Giordano's semi-autobiographical novel captures the fear, anxiety, wonder, and beauty of this time of uncertainty and upheaval, exploring how we can create and maintain relationships with other people when it feels increasingly difficult to connect"--
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; Novels.; Giordano, Paolo, 1982-; Authors;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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