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“The story is about a family vacation. The narrator, his wife and two young children—all German—travel to the town of Torre di Venere, a little town in Italy, in the 1920s. It begins with joy and enthusiasm and quickly deteriorates when the family meets the phenomena of Italian nationalism and Fascism. At the centre of the story is a hypnotists’s performance that ends in an unexpected and tragic way.” Read more...
David Grossman on the Books That Shaped Him
David Grossman, Novelist
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The Inheritors
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Darkness Visible
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Rites of Passage
by William Golding, with a foreword by Annie Proulx -
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, with a foreword by Stephen King
