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Item Details
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THE PLAGUE-SPREADER'S TALE
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| By: |
Gesualdo Bufalino, Patrick Creagh (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860466087 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860466083 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 1999 |
| Pages: |
145 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
In the final days of World War II, a young soldier is exiled to a TB sanatorium near Palermo. Among the ruined lives and threat of death, love begins to flourish between the soldier and a woman patient, a former ballerina, as they attempt to build a future on shifting sands. |
| Synopsis: |
In the last months of World War II, a young man with a fatal disease, straight out the army, is sent to a TB sanatorium near Palermo. It feels like a leper colony- people arrive, but never leave until they are dead, usually in a matter of months. Even the doctor has the illness in his cells. But the sap of life cannot be stopped from flowing. The men's and women's wings of the sanatorium are strictly segregated, but there are permits to go into town for patients who have passed a screening; there are little boys to run lovers' errands; and there is human ingenuity. In the long, hot summer of 1946, at an evening of amateur theatricals organised by the doctor, our narrator falls in love with Marta, a young ballerina who has not lost her grace. But what sort of future can be expected of such a romance? |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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