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    Verdigris
    Verdigris
    Verdigris
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    Verdigris

    By Michele Mari

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnd Other Stories
    Release dateJan 2, 2024
    ISBN9781913505912
    Verdigris
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    Michele Mari

    Michele Mari is one of Italy’s most renowned novelists, poets, and translators. A former professor of Italian literature at the University of Milan, he has translated classic novels by Herman Melville, George Orwell, John Steinbeck and H. G. Wells.

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