When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son’s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo’s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between “normal” and “disabled” worlds.A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary honor, Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia’s American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia’s haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done.

Born Twice

Arts & Photography

Giuseppe Pontiggia

History & Criticism

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

<p>The hypocrisy of an Italian academic community is exposed when a university professor becomes obsessed with finding the author of an anonymous letter sent to a magazine and sharply criticizing him at the height of his career</p>

The Invisible Player (Eridanos Library, Vol 10)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Marsilio Pub

Vom Leben gewöhnlicher Männer und Frauen

Piper

Vite di uomini non illustri

Mondadori

La grande sera

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