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La mia guerra — "My War" — is not a battlefield memoir but the war of a long, full life. Its full title, Ricordi di un ragazzino ottuagenario (Memories of an Octogenarian Kid), says it all: Lucio Morelli, an Italian architect, actor, and director, looks back on eight decades with the curiosity and mischief of a boy. Published by Booksprint in 2011, this autobiographical work gathers the memories of a man who lived many lives — designing buildings, acting, and directing — before discovering, late in life, that he was also a writer.
Morelli writes about family, work, and the Italy he knew, with warmth, irony, and the unfiltered honesty of someone with nothing left to prove. What makes the book charming is its perspective: an eighty-year-old looking back not with nostalgia alone but with the playfulness of the boy he still feels himself to be. You will meet the people who shaped him, revisit the workplaces and stages where he spent his working life, and see Italy itself change across the decades through one man's eyes — not as a history lesson but as a lived place, full of characters, arguments, affection, and unfinished business.
There is a second pleasure in the book for readers who love Italy itself. Morelli's eight decades cross a country that changed enormously in his lifetime, and his memories — of family tables, workshops, theaters, and streets — add up to an informal portrait of Italian life that no guidebook could give. It is history told the way it was actually lived: one vivid scene at a time.
For readers of Italian memoir and biography, La mia guerra is a charming, bittersweet companion: proof that it is never too late to tell your story, and that the greatest battles are often the quiet ones we fight within ourselves. It is also an encouraging read for anyone who has ever thought their own story could wait — Morelli waited eight decades, and the wait made the telling better. Find the ebook at a discount from Tellebook.
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