by Howard Buten · Tranchida · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788885685796
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«Quando avevo cinque anni, mi sono ucciso» is the novel by Howard Buten, published by Tranchida in paperback (181 pages, in Italian).
The protagonist is Burt, an eight-year-old boy admitted to a care centre after showing affection for a classmate. Burt does not understand adult language and recounts his story, written on the walls of the isolation room, while testing the limits of love and life with innocence and defiance.
The original title of the work is «When I Was Five I Killed Myself» (1981); this 1992 Italian edition, translated by T. Tosolini, is the second and belongs to the collection «Le letture».
For reading groups and readers of contemporary fiction interested in child psychology and the failure to communicate.
Howard Buten was an American author living in France. He was also a psychologist, a clown, and a violin player. Buten was the author of five novels, the first of which, entitled When I Was Five I Killed Myself, was published in 1981 and turned into a film under its French title Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué in 1994.
