The children's train - Viola Ardone

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Book in Italian

2019 Einaudi

Finalist for the 2021 Wondy Prize for Resilient Literature

Sometimes we have to give up everything, even a mother's love, to discover our destiny. No novel had ever told it with such obstinate candour.

«Sharp and touching»  Friday

«We literally fell in love with this moving Bildungsroman. A story full of tenderness, irony and humanity" - Juan Milà, Harper Collins

«One of those books that remain under the skin, that leave you immersed in the story even when the last page has closed»  I Woman

It is 1946 when Amerigo leaves his neighborhood in Naples and gets on a train. Together with thousands of other southern children he will cross the entire peninsula and spend a few months in a northern family; an initiative by the Communist Party to rescue children from poverty after the last conflict. With the amazement of his seven years and the sly attitude of a child from the alleys, Amerigo shows us an Italy that is rising from the war as if we were seeing it for the first time. And he entrusts us with the touching story of a separation. That original pain that cannot be escaped, because there is no other way to grow.

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Description

Book in Italian

2019 Einaudi

Finalist for the 2021 Wondy Prize for Resilient Literature

Sometimes we have to give up everything, even a mother's love, to discover our destiny. No novel had ever told it with such obstinate candour.

«Sharp and touching»  Friday

«We literally fell in love with this moving Bildungsroman. A story full of tenderness, irony and humanity" - Juan Milà, Harper Collins

«One of those books that remain under the skin, that leave you immersed in the story even when the last page has closed»  I Woman

It is 1946 when Amerigo leaves his neighborhood in Naples and gets on a train. Together with thousands of other southern children he will cross the entire peninsula and spend a few months in a northern family; an initiative by the Communist Party to rescue children from poverty after the last conflict. With the amazement of his seven years and the sly attitude of a child from the alleys, Amerigo shows us an Italy that is rising from the war as if we were seeing it for the first time. And he entrusts us with the touching story of a separation. That original pain that cannot be escaped, because there is no other way to grow.

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