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Lost on Me: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Veronica Raimo
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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN FLORIO PRIZE 2024The 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
Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is 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 ...
Read MorePraise for Lost on Me: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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This deliciously enjoyable novel is a true original and one to savourHighly entertaining, thought-provoking and one of 2023's best novels yet - Strong WordsIt would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed. - Big IssueWith combustive prose and oxidising wit, Veronica Raimo sets fire to the Bildungsroman. A clear-eyed comedic talent who bends the novel form to her willI fell head over heels in love with Lost on Me. What a thrillingly original voice! This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funnyA bold, provocative, and original bookA desecrating and tender portrait of family that reels us in from the very first lines - Il Corriere della Sera
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