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Alessandro Piperno
ISBN: 9781933372334
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Europa Editions
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Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the checkered fortunes of the Sonninos, a Jewish-Italian family whose rise and fall provides the backdrop to this tragicomedy…
Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the checkered fortunes of the Sonninos, a Jewish-Italian family whose rise and fall provides the backdrop to this tragicomedy. Daniel is on bad terms with himself, having inherited both his grandfather's extravagant passions and his father's glum servility. He is prone to the excesses typical of his class - despite his family's crumbling textile empire - and is victim of a crippling infatuation with Gaia, the fountainhead of his erotic fantasies and fetishes. In Piperno's writing Daniel Sonnino emerges as an unlikely hero in a modern saga of personal liberty and public ritual, love and war, sex and betrayal, sin and forgiveness, set in the opulent neighborhoods of contemporary Rome.
| ISBN | 1933372338 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781933372334
(What's this?) | | Pages | 304 | | Publisher | Europa Editions | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Europa Editions | | Weight (grammes) | 336 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | New York | | Publication date | 12 Jul 2007 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Translator | Ann Goldstein | | Width (mm) | 135 | | Library of Congress | PQ | | Spine width (mm) | 25 | | DEWEY | 853.92 | | Academic level | General |
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