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- ISBN 9781781682869
- Weight: 388g
- Dimensions: 146 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2014
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Luciana Castellina is one of Italy's most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper Il Manifesto. In this coming-of-age memoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy-where she used to play tennis with Mussolini's daughter-and the subsequent downfall of the regime. The book is about war, anti-Semitism, anti-fascism, resistance, hope in social justice, experiencing different contexts than one's own, traveling, political rallies, cinema, French intellectuals and FIAT workers, international diplomacy and friendship. All this is built on an intricate web made of reason and affection, of rational questioning and ironic self-narration as well as of profound nostalgia, disappointment and new discoveries.
Luciana Castellina is a journalist and writer based in Rome. A member of the Italian Communist Party from 1947, she was expelled in 1969 as part of the dissident Il manifesto group. She has been a deputy both in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and a member of the European Parliament, where she was president of the Culture and Media Commission. She has published numerous books in Italian, including the highly acclaimed Siberiana (2012).
