| Title | : | If You Kept a Record of Sins |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris & Edmund White |
| Release | : | 2021-03-23 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Family Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 1325344 |
| Andrea Bajani's "beautiful, original, and deeply moving" (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts "accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm." A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love. |
