Edoardo Nesi: 5 books

Book cover of Story of My People

Story of My People

Essays and Social Criticism on Italy's Economy

by Edoardo Nesi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy’s declining economy.   Starting from his family’s textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy’s manufacturing...
Book cover of Everything Is Broken Up and Dances

Everything Is Broken Up and Dances

The Crushing of the Middle Class

by Edoardo Nesi, Guido Maria Brera
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

This extended autobiographical essay explains in clear, engaging terms how the role of economics and finance in the Western world has shifted in the twenty-first century, from cultivating wellbeing in society to eroding the wealth of the middle class. Just a handful of years into the new millennium,...
Book cover of Infinite Summer

Infinite Summer

A Novel

by Edoardo Nesi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them   Infinite Summer brings the reader back to Italy in the 1970s, a time when growth and full employment...
Book cover of Smash

Smash

15 racconti di tennis

by Sandro Veronesi, Elena Stancanelli, Sergio Claudio Perroni
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Il tennis è forse lo sport che ha ingaggiato i duelli più riusciti con la letteratura. Da Nabokov a Foster Wallace, generazioni di scrittori hanno contribuito a costruire l’immaginario di uno sport unico, elegante e popolare al tempo stesso, emozionante e silenzioso, rovente e glaciale come i...
Book cover of Tutto è in frantumi e danza
by Guido Maria Brera, Edoardo Nesi
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 20, 2017

Ricordi quando vivevi nel migliore dei mondi possibili, e non te ne accorgevi neanche? Quando eri certo che il futuro sarebbe stato migliore del presente. Quando sapevi che i tuoi figli avrebbero trovato lavoro a un chilometro da casa. Quando potevi sognare senza sembrare un illuso. Quando dovevi...
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