by Diego Marani · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845251702
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«Nuova grammatica finlandese» is the historical novel by Diego Marani, published by Bompiani in paperback (205 pages, in Italian).
In Trieste in September 1943, an amnesiac man with no documents is picked up aboard a German warship. The Finnish doctor who treats him thinks he recognises a compatriot and decides to re-educate him in his mother tongue, like a child, until he takes him to Helsinki. A novel about identity, memory and language set during the Second World War.
Winner of the Grinzane Cavour Prize 2001 and the Dessì Prize 2001; shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012. Published in ten countries.
For readers of European historical fiction and novels about memory, language and the Second World War.
Diego Marani is an Italian novelist and European civil servant.
