ABOUT THE BOOK
Time runs slowly in a sleepy Tuscan village once renowned for its thermal baths ... until the arrival of Ottone Gattai, a ruthless businessman who has come to this idyllic countryside to revive the legendary baths as an ultra-modern tourist resort. Appalled by the transformation of his beloved birthplace, Federico, scion of the landowning Cremona family, decides to take action. When peaceful protest proves ineffective, he and his girlfriend Lea launch a guerilla war against the forces of globalisation. This richly satirical first novel by a brilliant young Italian writer is the story of this strange war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FILIPPO BOLOGNA was born in Tuscany in 1978 and studied in Siena. His work in screenwriting includes Questo mondo è per te which is currently in production and was short listed for the prestigious Solinas Prize. How I Lost the War is the author’s first novel. Filippo Bologna lives and works in Rome.
Translated from the Italian by Howard Curtis
Cover illustration: Roland Gerth
ISBN 978 1906548 36 0
275 pages
