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Boys Alive
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1955
- Originally in
- Originally in Italian
- Pages
- Pages 300
A gang of poor teenage boys drift through the rubble and slums of postwar Rome, thieving, hustling and swimming away their days, and the novel ends with one of them drowning while the rest drift off, unmoved.
wandering around the market stalls like a stray dog, sniffing at the smells that wafted about by the thousands on the haze of the sirocco.
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