EAN: 9780241983393

THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER - CESARE PAVESE TASCHENBUCH

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love...
there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout  from the
introduction'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...'It's the height of summer in 1930s
Italy and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a fateful friendship
with Amelia  a stylish and sophisticated artist's model who envelops her in a dazzling new
world of bohemian artists and intoxicating freedom. Under the spell of her new friends  Ginia
soon falls in love with Guido  an enigmatic young painter. It's the start of a desperate love
affair  charged with false hope and overwhelming passion - destined to last no longer than the
course of a summer.The Beautiful Summer is a gorgeous coming-of-age tale of lost innocence and
first love  by one of Italy's greatest writers.'Pavese  to me  is a constant source of
inspiration' Jhumpa Lahiri'One of the few essential novelists of the mid-twentieth century'
Susan Sontag'[Pavese writes books of] extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new
levels  new meaning' Italo Calvino'For my trip to Los Angeles  I'm packing The Beautiful Summer
a slender account of love in 1930s Italy' Jessie Burton  bestselling author of The Miniaturist
and The Muse

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