“Starnone has won Italy’s top literary prize and earned nominations for the National Book Award and International Booker Prize. His latest novel—brought into English by Stransky, who has translated him before—is a slim, quietly reflective volume that evokes Ernest Hemingway's similarly titled classic, only with a heftier serving of sweetness and self-deprecating humor., quietly reflective volume that evokes Ernest Hemingway's similarly titled classic, only with a heftier serving of sweetness and self-deprecating humor.”
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