Lost Words

by Nicola Gardini

Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811224767
• ISBN13: 9780811224765
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"