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Spit Three Times (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609809096)
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xWinner of the Carlo Boscarato Prize 2016
Winner of the Lo Straniero Prize 2016
Winner of the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize for Best Writing 2017
Sélection Officielle Angoulême 2018 In a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside, Guido and his friends Moreno and Katango spin out their days in languor and boredom intermixed with desire and, occasionally, violence. Nearby live the Stančič, a family of Romani who escaped the communist regime of Marshal Tito and settled here just after World War II. Guido's coming-of-age is changed by the evolving relationship that the rural town has with this group of outsiders, these "gypsies." The author is unsparing in his depiction of the townspeople's cruelty. And yet, there are also many instances of solidarity between Guido's community and the Stančič. Reviati's first book in English, Spit Three Times is an extraordinary story of young men, disillusioned and trying to find their way, caught in the breach between post-war exuberance and the stagnation of the early twenty-first century.
Author: Davide Reviati
ISBN-10: 1609809092
ISBN-13: 9781609809096
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2020
Pages: 568
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/27/2020
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 38
Winner of the Lo Straniero Prize 2016
Winner of the Attilio Micheluzzi Prize for Best Writing 2017
Sélection Officielle Angoulême 2018 In a forsaken corner of the Italian countryside, Guido and his friends Moreno and Katango spin out their days in languor and boredom intermixed with desire and, occasionally, violence. Nearby live the Stančič, a family of Romani who escaped the communist regime of Marshal Tito and settled here just after World War II. Guido's coming-of-age is changed by the evolving relationship that the rural town has with this group of outsiders, these "gypsies." The author is unsparing in his depiction of the townspeople's cruelty. And yet, there are also many instances of solidarity between Guido's community and the Stančič. Reviati's first book in English, Spit Three Times is an extraordinary story of young men, disillusioned and trying to find their way, caught in the breach between post-war exuberance and the stagnation of the early twenty-first century.
Author: Davide Reviati
ISBN-10: 1609809092
ISBN-13: 9781609809096
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2020
Pages: 568
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.70w x 1.70d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/27/2020
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 38
By Davide Reviati
xDAVIDE REVIATI is an Italian cartoonist and illustrator (for il Manifesto, La Stampa, and L'Unità among others), and screenwriter. His graphic novel Morti di sonno (Coconino Press, 2009) won the 2010 Napoli Comic Con, and the dBD prize for best foreign comic for its French edition (Casterman 2011). Sputa tre volte (Spit Three Times) was published in Italy in 2016 after seven years of crafting story and illustrations. JAMIE RICHARDS is an American literary translator based in Milan. Her translations include Igiaba Scego's novel Adua, Zerocalcare's graphic reportage Kobane Calling, and Serena Vitale's interviews with Viktor Shklovsky, Witness to an Era.
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