Book
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Don't shed your tears for anyone who lives on these streets
Call Number
- FICTION PRON (CEN)
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Physical Description
vii, 287 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"Pinerolo, Italy; April 1945. At a conference in support of Fascism, a writer disappears and is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Thirty years later, a young man--a political activist or a terrorist, depending on your perspective--interviews survivors from the conference, to try to uncover the truth about what happened and its consequences. Who was the writer? What did he believe in? Why, shortly before his death, did he save a man who could have killed him? Where is his lost work? And what does any of this have to do with a teenager in contemporary Milan involved in a violent confrontation with the police? Don't Shed Your Tears for Anyone Who Lives on These Streets is a razor-sharp, completely original exploration of our most timeless concerns--guilt, betrayal, the legacy of earlier generations--and probes the question of what literature is: how it explains our times and irrevocably changes our lives."--
Notes
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
"Originally published in Spain as No derrames tus lágrimas por nadie que viva en estas calles by Literatura Random House... in 2016"--Title page verso.