If you kept a record of sins

ISBN: 9781939810977
ISBN: 1939810965 : PAP
ISBN: 9781939810960 : PAP
Physical Description: 200 pages. print
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2021.

Bajani, Andrea 1975- (author.). Harris, Elizabeth, 1996- (translator.). White, Edmund, 1940- (writer of afterword.).

Summary: "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 sheabandons 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. Withelliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love"--