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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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Corpus) volume 563
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Russian
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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
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Izdatel'stvo AST
Pub. Date
2020.
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Russian
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"Lzhivaia vzroslaia zhizn' - eto zakhvatyvaiushchiĭ, psikhologicheski tonkiĭ i tochnyĭ roman o tom, kak nelegko vzroslet'. ́Glavnoĭ geroine, ona zhe rasskazchitsa, na samom poroge iunosti prikhoditsia uznat' mnozhestvo semeĭnykh taĭn, spravitsia s gruzom kotorykh bylo by trudno liubomu vzroslomu. Predatel'stvo blizkikh, nenavist' i zlobnye peresudy, perekhodiashchaia iz ruk v ruki dragotsennost', odnovremenno ob"ediniajushchaia i seiushchaia...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Nápoles, en la actualidad: cuando la joven Giovanna insiste en conocer a la hermana de su padre, personaje misteriosamente borrado de las conversaciones y fotografías familiares, desencadena sin saberlo el desmoronamiento de su familia intelectual y burguesa, perfecta solo en apariencia. Una historia sobre el descubrimiento de las mentiras de los adultos, del amor y del sexo.
Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear...
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To volume 132
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Da kuai wen hua chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
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中文
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Gallimard
Pub. Date
2020.
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Français
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"Deux ans avant qu'il ne quitte la maison, mon père dit à ma mère que j'étais très laide." Giovanna, fi lle unique d'un couple de professeurs, vit une enfance heureuse dans les hauteurs de Naples. L'année de ses douze ans, elle surprend une conversation dans laquelle son père la compare à Vittoria, une tante à la réputation maléfi que. Bouleversée par ce rapprochement aussi dévalorisant qu'inattendu, Giovanna va chercher à en savoir...
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