Oh, Serafina!: A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love

by Giuseppe Berto

Book Overview

Heir to the FIBA button factory in Lombardy, Augustus is profiting from Italy's postwar industrial boom. Yet the dreamy young man is far from your stereotypical industrialist. He is less interested in making money than in talking to the birds in the surrounding garden and in making love to a beautiful factory worker named Palmira. But when the money-hungry Palmira schemes to have him institutionalized, Augustus finds a new love among his fellow mental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978835744
• ISBN13: 9781978835740
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.1"