Used book – C'est géant !, Cristano Cavina

Bastiano is eight years old. In a small industrial town in northern Italy, the child grows up as best he can between a mother exhausted by housework and bills, a grandmother who spends her days staring at the wall, and a father he constantly has to reinvent to compensate for his absence. Yet, Bastiano is not short on resources against the gloom and difficulties. Tirelessly, he embarks on fantastic adventures... The latest: building a submarine to retrieve a bag of gold coins from the bottom of the lake. Enough to lift his family out of poverty, become the hero of his housing estate, finally see his mother's face light up, and perhaps win the heart of the beautiful Milena. Unfortunately, the line between imagination and big trouble is thin. The harder the adult world is, the more Bastiano retreats into the one he invents, at the risk of cutting himself off permanently from reality. But, for him, it doesn't matter: "It's awesome!" he bravely exclaims to life, ignoring the incomprehension of adults. It's Awesome! is a moving and funny coming-of-age novel. Its young hero, Bastiano, draws us with a Don Quixote-like fervor in shorts into his fantastical epic against the windmills of misery and fate.

Anne carrière 

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