Oh, Serafina! : : A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love / / Giuseppe Berto.
Heir to the FIBA button factory in Lombardy, Augustus is profiting from Italy's postwar industrial boom. Yet the dreamy young man is far from your stereotypical industrialist. He is less interested in making money than in talking to the birds in the surrounding garden and in making love to a be...
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