La linea del colore : il grand tour di Lafanu Brown /
January 26, 1887: in Dogali, Eritrea, nearly five hundred Italian soldiers are killed during a clash with Ethiopian troops. When the news reaches Rome, a wave of outrage invades the city. Just at that moment a woman is returning from the walk that takes her to Shelley's grave every morning, at...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Italian |
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Milano, Italia :
Bompiani : Giunti editore S.p.A.,
[2020]
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| Series: | Romanzo Bompiani.
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| Summary: | January 26, 1887: in Dogali, Eritrea, nearly five hundred Italian soldiers are killed during a clash with Ethiopian troops. When the news reaches Rome, a wave of outrage invades the city. Just at that moment a woman is returning from the walk that takes her to Shelley's grave every morning, at the Non-Catholic Cemetery: her name is Lafanu Brown, she is an American painter who has been living for years. in Rome, and it's black. The anger of the crowd pours out on her, an unaware scapegoat, until a man, an anarchist capable of thinking with his own head, brings her to safety. It is to him - who is called Ulysses but has the patience of Penelope - that Lafanu decide to tell his story: the birth in a Chippewa Indian tribe, the black-skinned man who loved his mother and disappeared, the woman who brought her with him to the city and then considered her ungrateful, abolitionism and violence, the meeting with her mentor Lizzie Manson, up to the great choice, the one that led her on a steamer, in England and finally in Italy, far from love but perhaps a little is closer to freedom. |
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| Physical Description: | 367 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9788830101418 8830101419 |