How I Lost The War - Softcover

Here is life, death, love and destiny, the transitory and the territory, the ancient community and the current destruction, exaltation and defeat, all of which is told with intensity, passion, irony -- Alberto Asor Rosa La Repubblica A thought-provoking and beautiful book -- Enrica Brocardo Vanity Fair A very intriguing novel: internal, poetic, anticonventional and, especially, told with an incredibly promising narrative ambition -- Errico Buonanno Il Riformista Very funny ... Bologna draws a vivid ... picture of village life, with all its affections and petty competitiveness ... a constantly surprising book Independent Bologna manages to make you care, and with only a description of where a character stands or which direction they blew their cigarette smoke California Literary Review

A satire about eco-cultural terrorism in an idyllic Tuscan town Time passes slowly in a sleepy Tuscan village once renowned for its thermal baths ... until the arrival of Ottone Gattai, a ruthless businessman who has come to this idyllic countryside to revive the legendary baths as an ultra-modern tourist resort. appalled by the transformation of his beloved birthplace, federico, scion of the landowning Cremona family, decides to take action. When peaceful protest proves ineffective, he and his girlfriend Lea launch a guerilla war against the forces of globalisation. This richly satirical first novel by a brilliant young Italian writer is the story of this strange war. Filippo Bologna was born in Tuscany in 1978. He lives in Rome where he works as a writer and screenwriter. His novels The Parrots and How I Lost the War are also published by Pushkin Press.