Verdigris

Michele Mari

Winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize

Winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Prize

A lonely little boy’s unlikely friendship with his grandparents’ grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.

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Winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize

Winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Prize

A lonely little boy’s unlikely friendship with his grandparents’ grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.

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Weight 0.213 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 19.8 × 2.1 cm
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Cover

Paperback

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English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

853.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K