The Imaginary Story of My Family
Andrea Vianello
Every family story is to some degree imaginary because memory is capricious, unreliable: it loves variation.
In this novel, a narrative is spun by the youngest member of a chaotic family where ultra-Fascist fathers stand side by side their Partisan brothers and silent and regal wives play their part.
A family wound up in the history of its country, from postwar trauma to the economic boom and the degradation that followed.