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Verdigris

by Michele Mari
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781913505905
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: And Other Stories
  • Publisher Imprint: And Other Stories
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: USD 19.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 205 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Literary, World Literature / Italy, and Magical Realism

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends
his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore,
losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his
grandfather's library. The greatest mystery he's ever encountered, however,
doesn't come from a book--it's the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimes
frightening, sometimes gentle, always colorful man of uncertain age who speaks
an enchanting dialect and whose memory gets worse with each passing day. When Michelino
volunteers to help the old man by providing him with clever mnemonic devices to
keep his memory alive, the boy soon finds himself obsessed with piecing
together the eerie hodgepodge of Felice's biography . . . a quest that leads to
the uncovering of skeletons in Nazi uniforms in the attic, to Felice's
admission that he can hear the voices of the dead, and to a new perspective on
Felice's endless war against the insatiable local slugs, who are by no means
merely a horticultural threat.

And yet nothing could be more fascinating to Michelino
than Felice's own secret origins. Where did he come from? Is he the victim or
the villain of his story? Is he a noble hero, a holy fool, or perhaps the very
thing that Michelino most wants and fears: a real-life monster.


Mari, Michele: -

















Michele
Mari
is one of Italy's most renowned contemporary
writers. He has published ten novels in addition to several short story and
poetry collections, and has received prestigious awards including the Bagutta Prize, the Mondello Prize, and the
Selezione Campiello Prize. A former professor of Italian literature at the
University of Milan, he has translated classic novels by Herman Melville, George
Orwell, John Steinbeck, and H. G. Wells. In a survey published by the
magazine Orlando Esplorazioni in
2015, Mari was ranked the contemporary Italian author most likely to be read by
generations to come.







Moore, Brian Robert: -

















Brian Robert Moore has translated A Silence Shared
by Lalla Romano, Meeting in Positano by Goliarda Sapienza, and the work
of other distinguished Italian authors. He has received a National Endowment
for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a Santa Maddalena Foundation Fellowship,
and the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. For And
Other Stories, he has already translated Michele Mari's You, Bleeding Childhood, which was the first book by Mari to be
published in English.







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