Research Catalog

Title

The rain's falling up / Luca Rastello ; translated by Cristina Viti.

Author

Rastello, Luca, 1961-

Publication

London : Seagull Books, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

Viti, Cristina

Description

vii, 372 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"What was it really like to be a teenager growing up in Italy in the 1970s, during a time it has become all too easy to file away under 'years of lead', as the fathers' betrayed ideals came face to face with the sons' and daughters' rebellions? What was happening in schools, in assemblies, social centers, and occupied factories as the postwar 'economic miracle' was being dismantled from within? What moved the foremost French intellectuals of the time to sign an appeal against the repression of the student and workers' movement in Italy? What did the bullets and heroin bring to a halt, and where did they come from? How does it feel when strategies of terror and police brutality become as ordinary as a TV dinner and as eerie as the plots of the science fiction novels you are plagiarizing to impress a girl? How are metropolitan geographies alchemized in the muscles of a young body crossing the shady lines between ages and sexes? Luca Rastello raises these and other questions in an astonishing novel that splices chunks of plot and historical reconstruction into the free flow of memory and dream. Rain's Falling Up tracks the trajectory of a generation while refusing to romanticize its protagonists or resolve the tensions that powered its volatile energy."--

Series Statement

The Italian list

Uniform Title

• Piove all'insù. English
• Italian list.

Alternative Title

Piove all'insù.

Subject

• 1945-1976
• History
• Italy > History > 1945-1976 > Fiction
• Italy

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• History.

Note

• "Originally published in Italian as Piove all'insù"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFE 23-1041

ISBN

• 9780857429902
• 0857429906

OCLC

1314334577

Author

Rastello, Luca, 1961- author.

Title

The rain's falling up / Luca Rastello ; translated by Cristina Viti.

Publisher

London : Seagull Books, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Italian list

Italian list.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1945-1976

Added Author

Viti, Cristina, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1041