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Description of  Oh, Serafina!: A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love (Other Voices of Italy)

Heir to the FIBA button factory in Lombardy, Augustus is profiting from Italys postwar industrial boom. Yet the dreamy young man is far from your stereotypical industrialist. He is less interested in making money than in talking to the birds in the surrounding garden and in making love to a beautiful factory worker named Palmira. But when the money-hungry Palmira schemes to have him institutionalized, Augustus finds a new love among his fellow mental patients: flute-playing flower child Serafina. Can Augustus and Serafina find a way to break free and express their love of each other and of nature in this crazy world? Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Bertos charming 1973 novel Read more