by Marcello D'Orta · Diogenes Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783257226324
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«In Afrika ist immer August» is the anthology of Neapolitan children's essays edited by Marcello D'Orta (Diogenes, paperback, 140 pages, in German).
The volume brings together sixty essays that the teacher Marcello D'Orta selected from those written by his primary school pupils in Arzano, near Naples. The daily life, poverty and desires of these children are shown with spontaneous humor, a sometimes cheeky gaze and a lucidity that turns their texts into a portrait of southern Italy.
Work originally published as «Io speriamo che me la cavo» (1990); this German edition, translated by Linde Birk, includes an epilogue by Luciano De Crescenzo.
For readers seeking humor and social testimony, with a childlike and lucid view of poverty in Naples.
