by Lesley Lokko · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804546122
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«Il mondo ai miei piedi» is a contemporary fiction novel by Lesley Lokko, published by Mondadori in paperback (615 pages, in Italian).
September 1981: Rianne de Zoete, a young South African raised in the privileged and racist white society, is sent against her will to an English boarding school. There she befriends three different classmates. The situation becomes complicated when she takes an interest in Riitho Modise, son of a well-known South African political prisoner, an enemy of her family.
The novel belongs to the «Oscar bestsellers» collection. The Italian translation is by Jole Da Rin. The work was originally published as «Sundowners» in 2003.
For readers of contemporary and romantic fiction, with an interest in friendship, social differences and the South African context of the eighties.
Lesley Naa Norle Lokko is a Ghanaian-Scottish academic, and novelist. From 2019 to 2020, she was a professor and served as dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York, in addition to holding teaching and other positions in Johannesburg, London, Accra and Edinburgh.
