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Aracoeli
Aracoeli | William Weaver, Elsa Morante
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An aging man attempts to recover the past and get his life back on track in the process. His deceased mother, Aracoeli, came from a small Spanish town and married an upper class Italian navy ensign. The idyllic years she spends with her only son, Mauel, are shattered when she contracts an incurable disease and becomes a nymphomaniac. Now 43, Manuel is a unattractive, self loathing, recovering drug addict who works in a dead end job at a small publishing house. He decides to travel back to Spain to search for traces of his mother.
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Aracoeli | William Weaver, Elsa Morante
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#Alphabetgame #LetterA @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I narrowed it down to four: Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, The Aeneid, Ada by Nabokov, and The African by J-M G Le Clézio. I went with Aracoeli because it has no other posts.

This is a bitterly sad but beautifully written later novel by Morante. My response to the writing has stayed with me, even if most of the story hasn‘t.

Thanks for the tag, @batsy
@Ann_Reads @salderson107 - want to play?

batsy Adding it straight to my list. Arturo's Island is TBR and I haven't heard of this one, so thanks once again! 2y
Graywacke @batsy 💙 I have neglected Morante too. She was a true artist with language. (Unfortunately she intentionally simplified bare her novel History, her most famous novel.) 2y
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