Name: The Javelin Thrower (The Italian List)
SKU: 51352251
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Author: Paolo Volponi
ISBN: 9780857425393

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Physical Book

Publisher

Seagull Books London Ltd

Author

Paolo Volponi

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780857425393

Edition No.

002

Synopsis "The Javelin Thrower (The Italian List) "

As a boy growing up in rural Italy in the 1930s, Damìn is experiencing the first stirrings of adolescence when he accidentally sees his mother having sex with the local Fascist commandant. His pain, anger, and confusion are uncomfortably intertwined with a compulsion to watch them, which becomes an obsession. Isolating himself from anyone who might help him understand what he’s feeling, he channels his fury into his javelin, getting better and better until he is a local champion. But his success is fleeting, as wholly confused and caught up in his own anger, he ends up betraying and humiliating his friends. The Javelin Thrower is the story of an erotic education turned tragic, poisoned by the darkness running through Mussolini’s Italy.

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