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If you kept a record of sins / Andrea Bajani ; translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris ; afterword by Edmund White.

by Bajani, Andrea, 1975-

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Archipelago Books, 2021.

Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.

Romania -- Fiction.

9781939810960 (pbk.)

Se consideri le colpe. English.

1st Archipelago Books ed.

200 p. ; 17 cm.

Translated from the Italian of: Se consideri le colpe.

"Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love"--Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

Harris, Elizabeth, 1996-

White, Edmund, 1940-

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