MARCH 23, 2016, 06:00 PM. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011
Co-hosted by the Casa delle letterature di Roma. Lost Words (2016, New Directions) by Nicola Gardini. Translated from the Italian by Michael F. Moore

Nicola Gardini's Lost Words, just published in English, takes place on the cusp of an upheaval in Italian life. The 1970s in Italy may be best known for the clash between left- and right-wing extremists, but it was also a decade of social mobility, educational opportunity, and a sexual revolution. Lost Words captures a microcosm of this transformation in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Milan, littered with construction debris and tainted by the malice of petty gossip.

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