The Night Traveller

Maurizio Maggiani · 2005 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

A scientist waiting in the Algerian desert for the swallows to pass north on their migration recalls the other journeys of his life, from Bosnia to the coast of Liguria. Each memory is a crossing of a border, and the birds' return gives the book its rhythm. It won the Strega Prize in 2005.

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