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Margherita Dolce Vita

by Stefano Benni · 2005

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Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satirical has made him one of Italy's best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth bestselling book of fiction. Fifteen-year-old Margherita lives with her eccentric family on the outskirts of town, a semi-urban wilderness peopled by gypsies, illegal immigrants, and no end of bizarre characters: a reassuring and fertile playground for an imaginative little girl like Margherita. But one day, a gigantic, black cube shows up next door. Her new neighbors have arrived, and they're destined to ruin everything.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thissatiresatireMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisItalyItalyMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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