by Vasco Pratolini · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429714463
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«Metello» is the novel by Vasco Pratolini published by Edicions 62 in paperback (304 pages, in Catalan).
Set in Florence at the end of the nineteenth century, it follows Metello, who returns to the city at fifteen to work as a bricklayer. Between learning the trade, love and prison, the novel interweaves his story with the first workers' struggles and the social conflicts of a recently unified Italy.
Winner of the Premio Letterario Viareggio Rèpaci in 1955, Metello opens the series «Una storia italiana» by Vasco Pratolini. This Catalan edition, published in 1978, belongs to the El Cangur collection.
For readers of social and historical fiction interested in twentieth-century Italian classics.
Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
