What did Emily’s walking book club make of this powerful novella about a gay doctor in 1930s Italy?
Press play to learn more about these gold-rimmed spectacles, watch me attempt to draw a graph with my fingers, and to explore how we are always vulnerable to being moved from an insider to outsider …
Have you read this book, or any other books by Bassani? What did you think? Leave me a comment.
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