Cleopatra va in prigione / Cleopatra goes to prison
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Autor:
Claudia Durastanti
Country:
Italy (IT)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
Minimum Fax
Publishing Year:
2023
Claudia Durastanti was born in Brooklyn in 1984. She is a writer and translator from English. Her debut novel Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra (2010) won the Premio Mondello Giovani. She published A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate (2013), Cleopatra va in prigione (2016), and La straniera (2019), finalist for the Premio Strega and translated into over 25 countries. She collaborates with Internazionale and curates books for Tartaruga.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Every Thursday, Caterina visits Aurelio in Rebibbia prison. Both from the outskirts of Rome, they had dreamed of running a nightclub. But things went differently: Caterina, a former classical dancer, works as a stripper in Aurelio’s club. Now he’s in prison, convinced he’s been framed. How would he react if he knew that, once out, his girlfriend sleeps with the cop who arrested him? A tough novel, full of twists, set in a much larger and unknown Rome than one might imagine. Claudia Durastanti vividly captures the reality of the urban outskirts, the true place where stories are born, and tells of those who, despite disappointments and broken dreams, continue to live and love
