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Lost on Me

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024 The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy 'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny 'I adored it' Naoise Dolan 'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle 'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali Lost on Me... Read More
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Lost on Me

A delightfully funny, bestselling, prize-winning Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024

The 100,000 copy Italian bestseller for fans of Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy

'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny

'I adored it' Naoise Dolan

'Hilarious' Roddy Doyle

'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali

Lost on Me tells the story of Vero, who has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations, and a complicated relationship with truth and storytelling ...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349017693

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Translated by Leah Janeczko
  • Translated by Leah Janeczko

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Veronica Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio Repaci Prize. She contributes cultural articles to various Italian publications, and her translations into Italian include works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. She lives in Rome.

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