An Orphan World

An Orphan World
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Publisher : Charco Press
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9781916465695
ISBN-13 : 1916465692
Rating : 4/5 (692 Downloads)

Book Synopsis An Orphan World by : Giuseppe Caputo

Download or read book An Orphan World written by Giuseppe Caputo and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in order to get by. Even when a horrifying, macabre event rocks the neighborhood and the locals start to flee, father and son decide to stay put. What matters is staying together.This is a bold, poignant text that juxtaposes a very tender father-son relationship with the son's sexual liberation and a brutal depiction of homophobic violence. Giuseppe Caputo uses delicate – yet electrifying – lyricism and imagery to weave a tale that balances desire, violence, discrimination, love, eroticism and defiance, while evoking with surreal humor the social marginalization of the protagonists as they struggle to keep afloat in a society where there are no safety nets.Like a brightly-lit theme park with its house of horrors, reminiscent in parts of James Baldwin’s Another Country or Virginie Despentes’ Vernon Subutex trilogy, An Orphan World defies the reader to look away, and the reward is an exhilarating carnival ride filled with beauty, compassion and loss.


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