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La scuola cattolica

by Edoardo Albinati

Premio Strega · 2016 · Winner
RizzoliLiterary FictionBiography & Memoir

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Premio Strega2016Winner

About This Book

A 1,200-page reckoning with masculinity, privilege, and Catholic education, using the 1975 Circeo massacre as a lens to examine the moral formation of a generation of upper-middle-class Roman men.

About the Author

Edoardo Albinati is an Italian novelist, poet, and essayist born in 1956 in Rome. He is a writer of extraordinary ambition and intellectual range, known for tackling difficult moral and psychological terrain with unflinching rigor. He has also worked as a prison teacher at Rome's Rebibbia prison, an experience that has deeply informed his understanding of violence and human nature. Read more →

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