The age of flowers / Umberto Pasti ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasti, Umberto.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Età fiorita. English

Language:

English

Italian

Genre:

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

220 pages : portrait ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2003.

Summary:

In a white city on the African shore of the Mediterranean, the Islamic fundamentalists are gaining control of the streets and the European community of artists and decadent aristocrats seek refuge in memories and innumerable barely recognized vices. Luca and Irene, a young couple, are accepted into this society because of Irene's family and money.

On learning that his wife has breast cancer, Luca becomes obsessed with the memory of his mother, who died of the same illness, and escapes into the only world in which he feels more secure -- his garden -- to which he devotes himself with the desperate passion of one threatened by the entire world. There he remains, ignorant of the intrigues of his friends and acquaintances, untouched by Irene's illness and her numerous affairs with other men. He immerses himself ever more deeply in his dream, becoming more and more like the city's native inhabitants who are rushing headlong to corruption and destruction.

ISBN:

1901285472

OCLC:

52159357