Title : With the Worst Intentions - Alessandro Piperno - book
Summary :
Iconoclastic, provocative, and politically incorrect, this novel paints a portrait of a family from the good Roman Jewish bourgeoisie, the Sonninos. First and foremost, Bepy, who, at the end of the war, prefers to forget the "clownish couple" Mussolini-Hitler and return to a glittering and futile existence in which women, especially those of his friends, occupy a lot of space. He will never understand why his youngest son Teo, gifted and attractive, chooses to go and live "in this insane country called Israel." Fortunately, his eldest, Luca, follows in his father's footsteps: double-breasted cashmere coat, Porsche Carrera, and frequent business class. As for his grandson Daniel, the narrator, the product of an improbable mixed marriage, he is caught in an insoluble dilemma: "being Jewish for the gentiles" and "gentile for the Jews." A handicap to which will be added his sexual shyness and his inability to take on the beautiful Gaia, in the whirlwind of the golden youth of Rome.
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EAN : 9782867463952
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