ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards
β Bonini, Carlo
π Fiction
π Italian
β 105 KB
π 1 views
β¦ LIBER β¦
Not All Bastards Are from Vienna
β Scribed by Andrea Molesini
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic;Grove Press
- Year
- 2010;2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 307 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0802190197
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β¦ Synopsis
The international bestseller and winner of the Campiello Prize for Literatureβ"Moving and lyrical writing . . . Belongs in the canon of great war fiction" (Paste Magazine).
Andrea Molesini's exquisite debut novel portrays the depths of heroism and horror within a Northern Italian village toward the end of World War I. While a family's villa is requisitioned by enemy troops, they are forced to intimately confront war's injustice as their involvement with its sinister underpinnings grows more and more complex.
In the autumn of 1917, Refrontoloβa small community north of Veniceβis invaded by Austrian soldiers as the Italian army is pushed to the Piave river. The Spada family owns the largest estate in the area, where orphaned seventeen-year-old Paolo lives with his eccentric grandparents, headstrong aunt, and a loyal staff. With the battlefront nearby, the Spada home become a bastion of resistance, both clashing and...
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