THE CITY MARVELS
In his novel, the writer paints with words a city and its atmosphere. Everything is set in a time long gone, around the beginning of the twentieth century. Reading you will know the protagonist of this story – Onofrio Bouvila – a boy becomes a man, taking care of his life. What will surprise you, reading, will be the evidence of two things that grow, in and out of the main character: his life, his city.
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