Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

What does it mean to have been a child in the Italy of the economic boom and a boy in the 1970s? Beppe Severgnini explains it to us with relentless irony, in a book that is now a classic and has been telling us who we are for 20 years. In this edition - totally revised and enriched with photographs of objects recovered in "long days of domestic spelunking" - Beppe's personal stories and memories are transformed into the biography of a generation that grew up among marbles on the beach and picnics in the mountains, mini-basketball and ping-pong, English classes and plaid trips, Vespas and ferries. Those who are adults will retrace the stages of their own formation with this book; children will smile as they read about the exploits of their parents; the less young will flip through the family album. And all together we will understand how the story of an Italian child can also become the story of Italy. A story that proves one thing: "I believe that Italians we have all become. And Italians, in Italy, are still becoming."

Publication date: 14.07.2016
Publisher: Rizzoli - Best BUR
Country: Italy