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02710aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 9B6EF0B4E96D11E8978F920F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181116010210 008 180116t20182018it a 000 0aita d 020 $a 8838937729 020 $a 9788838937729 035 $a (OCoLC)1035647891 040 $a C3L $b eng $e rda $c C3L $d EYM $d EMU $d OCLCF $d FDA $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a PQ4861.L2435 $b Z46 2018 082 14 $a 853 $2 14 100 1 $a Alajmo, Roberto, $e author. 245 10 $a L'estate del '78 / $c Roberto Alajmo. 264 1 $a Palermo : $b Sellerio editore, $c [2018] 300 $a 173 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Il contesto ; $v 87 500 $a Autobiographical account in narrative form. 520 $a "Take the readers by the hand, invite them into the house, look at the photos of childhood together to tell the most unspeakable part of themselves and their family. Roberto Alajamo, in his most necessary and personal work, has transformed an intimate and painful material into the novel of a lifetime. July 1978: the writer is a student waiting for the oral examination, he studies with his classmates in Mondello, near Palermo, and at the end of the day goes out with them to rest, take a breath, eat an ice cream. A couple of thirty meters away, sitting on the sidewalk, he finds his mother. She looks at him, shielding herself from the sun with her hand. "Mom, what are you doing here?". And the last meeting between Elena and her son Roberto, the moment from which this book springs, the family investigation of a writer on an event that marked his youth and his maturity: the whole existence. And the story of a goodbye that the boy had had no sense of, the search for meaning for the sudden departure of a mother from her husband, children, life itself. The portrait of a woman who wanted to grasp the world, and the world escaped her fingers. A drama of domestic discomfort perhaps if they consumed so many, in those years, in the closed secret of the apartments of the Italian bourgeoisie. And a story of great literary originality, crossed by a suspense that sometimes takes your breath away, from an emotion that is careful to transform into thought." --Translated from page 2 of cover 600 10 $a Alajmo, Roberto. 650 0 $a Authors, Italian $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors, Italian $y 21st century $v Biography. 650 7 $a Authors, Italian. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822127 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 830 0 $a Contesto (Palermo, Italy) ; $v 87. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019012339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9B6EF0B4E96D11E8978F920F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search