L'Isola DI Arturo (Gli Struzzi) (Italian Edition)

A painful traversal of a boy's miserable adolescence on the island of Procida, "L'Isola di Arturo" is an anti-romance. The magic that Arturo finds in his island, his decaying palazzo home and his glamorous, often absent father, dissolves into a series of increasingly sordid and painful truths as he grows up until he finally can no longer face the life he has been dealt....more

A painful traversal of a boy's miserable adolescence on the island of Procida, "L'Isola di Arturo" is an anti-romance. The magic that Arturo finds in his island, his decaying palazzo home and his glamorous, often absent father, dissolves into a series of increasingly sordid and painful truths as he grows up until he finally can no longer face the life he has been dealt. Brutal, heartbreaking and, like all of Morante, ultimately extremely compassionate. Not a pleasant read, but such a fully realized world and such a vivid sense of crisis that it is also impossible to put down. Essential.   hide

Arturo was one of the most fascinating carachters i ever found in a book! very nice!

I read it in another language, but it wasn't too good, it was ok.

wonderfull