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Available
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Publication
Nuoro, Ilisso
Description
At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, Don Sebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully folded the newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied up the little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to the ground floor... Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.
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LibraryThing member Taruschio
An exquisite book, somewhat autobiographical, by an eminent Italian jurist, published posthumously and his only work of fiction. Tells of life in Sardinia (Nuoro) in the early 1900s. A true and instant modern Italian classic, right up there with The Leopard (the Sicilian version, if you will). Used
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the last lines of the book as the epigram to my own novel. Show Less
LibraryThing member dazzyj
A profound meditation on the rhythms
Language
Original language
Italian
Original publication date
1977
ISBN
8885098975 / 9788885098978