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Cuore : The Heart of a Boy, Paperback / softback Book

Cuore : The Heart of a Boy Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Required reading in Italian schools since 1886, Cuore is the Huckleberry Finn of Italy - the most read classic in the country.

Presented in the form of a diary, its subject is a young boy's life in Turin following Unification in 1870.

The narrator, Enrico, writes vividly of school life and the bustling city of vegetable-sellers, chimney sweeps and carpenters all around him.

Like Huck Finn or Dickens, Cuore has been adapted into just about every conceivable medium - there are films, major TV series, radio adaptations, plays and comic books.

It is a set text on courses from University College London to Harvard and is even a cult classic in Japan in its incarnation as an anime film.

From Henry Miller, who wrote a glowing monograph on the book, to world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli, who wrote a song about it, this simple tale of childhood has inspired all kinds of people and continues to do so today.

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