Uniform title | Verderame. English |
Abstract |
"A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead."-- Amazon.com. |
General note | Translation of: Verderame. |
General note | Originally published in Italian as Verderame in 2007. |
Language | Translated from the Italian. |
Awards note | Grinzane Cavour Prize, 2008 |
Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
ISBN | 9781913505905 (paperback) |
ISBN | 1913505901 (paperback) |