The discovery of dawn
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Author
Publication
2008 - Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
35,000 words, Guess
Page Count
140 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23091517M
- ISBN-139780847831098
- OCLC Control Number191922912
- OCLC Control Number265071140
- Internet Archivediscoveryofdawn00velt
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2008925833
- Goodreads5069133
- LibraryThing7538565
Classifications
- DDC853.92
- LCCPQ4882.E445 D57 2008
- LCCPQ4882.E446 S3613 2008
and 2 more
- LCCPQ4922
- LCCPQ4922.E48 S3613 2008
Description
Story about a man who reclaims his past. Giovanni Astengo keeps his life at arm's length: the father of a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome, Stella, and a forlorn, world-weary 20-year-old, Lorenzo, Giovanni is also still searching for his own lost father, who vanished during a period of political terrorism in 1977. Revisiting the country house his parents used to frequent, Giovanni discovers there that he can call his 13-year-old self (on the eve of his father's disappearance, no less) by dialing his old phone number. Over the phone, Giovanni tries to change the future by having his younger self look for clues about his father's disappearance. There are fascinating intellectual tenets coursing through Veltroni's work, and the bond that forms between the two Giovannis is beautifully realized, as is the clarity that the older Giovanni finally achieves.
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