Title:
|
HOW I LOST THE WAR
|
By: |
Filippo Bologna, Howard Curtis (Trans) |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
|
£6.99 |
We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source
it.
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
1908968958 |
ISBN 13: |
9781908968951 |
Publisher: |
PUSHKIN PRESS |
Pub. date: |
31 January, 2013 |
Pages: |
166 |
Translated from: |
Italian |
Description: |
The award-winning screenwriter Filippo Bologna's first novel is a dark and witty environmental satire set in sun-drenched Tuscany. |
Synopsis: |
Time runs slowly in a sleepy Tuscan village once renowned for its thermal baths ... until the arrival of Ottone Gattai, a ruthless businessman who has come to this idyllic countryside to revive the legendary baths as an ultra-modern tourist resort. appalled by the transformation of his beloved birthplace, federico, scion of the landowning Cremona family, decides to take action. When peaceful protest proves ineffective, he and his girlfriend Lea launch a guerilla war against the forces of globalisation. This richly satirical first novel by a brilliant young Italian writer is the story of this strange war. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Pushkin Press |
Prizes: |
Short-listed for Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2012 |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |