Description
| Product ID: | 9781939810960 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | If You Kept a Record of Sins |
| Authors: | Author: Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love. A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she''s building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother''s newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother''s funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today''s Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love. |
| Imprint Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Publisher Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-23 |