Edoardo Nesi, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Other Press, $19.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59051-554-9
Concise yet chaotic, Italian filmmaker and translator Nesi’s slim volume, winner of the Strega Prize, describes his experience selling his family textile business in 2004 and the effect of globalization on his beloved textile-driven city of Prato....
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Edoardo Nesi, trans. from the Italian by Alice Kilgarriff. Other Press, $27.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-59051-822-9
Italian writer and politician Nesi introduces readers to the Italy of the 1970s, decades years after the economic downfall of WWII, when a rebounding country is bright and hopeful again. Drawing on his real-life experiences in the textile industry,...
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Edoardo Nesi, trans. from the Italian by Antony Shugaar. Other, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-63542-214-6
Italian novelist Nesi (Story of My People) examines in this bittersweet book-length essay the collapse of the 20th-century dream of economic prosperity from inside the early Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns made countries and citizens reconsider what’s...
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