Monday 25 April 2011

The Bicycle Runner by G. Franco Romagnoli

From The Week of August 08, 2010


Mr. Romagnoli's wonderful memoir of life in Rome during the occupation of the Nazis is as laugh-out-loud irreverent as it is heart-warming. Mr. Romagnoli, a student during the Second World War, looks back on one of Rome's harshest times with humor and hindsight, able to discuss the broader events of the war's impact on Rome alongside the machinations of his family's squabbles. It's clear that, for all of war's deprivations, Mr. Romagnoli would never quit living his life and doing what little he could to resist the Germans.

Click here to read the full review up at my website.

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