Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
Translated by Howard Curtis & Howard Curtis
19 August 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name
In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved to Rome for work. Soon unemployed, he has spent his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between hotels, bars, romantic entanglements,...
Details
19 August 2021192 pages
9781529042269Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The true quality of this novel is the way it enlightens, with a desperate clearness, a relationship between a man and a city, that is, between crowd and lonelinessNatalia Ginzburg
The most beautiful love story of the yearIl Giornale
A masterpieceLe Figaro
Dazzling in every detailElle
