Cazzarola! CD: Musical Soundtrack for the novel of the same name
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NAWROCKI, Norman. CAZZAROLA! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy (A Novel)
PM Press, Oakland, 2013, 328 pages. ISBN: 978-1-60486-315-4.
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– See also : NAWROCKI, Norman. "How and Why I Wrote Cazzarola !, Fifth Estate (Fall Winter 2012) p. 42-44.
Publisher’s presentation
Cazzarola! is a gripping, epic, political, historical, and romantic novel spanning 130 years in the life of the Discordias, a fictional family of Italian anarchists. It details the family’s heroic, multigenerational resistance to fascism in Italy and their ongoing involvement in the anarchist movement. From early 20th-century factory strikes and occupations, armed anarchist militias, and attempts on Mussolini’s life, to postwar student and labor protest, and confronting the newest wave of contemporary neofascist violence sweeping Europe, the Discordias navigate the decades of political, economic, and social turmoil. Against this historical backdrop, Antonio falls in love with Cinka, a proud but poverty-stricken Romani refugee from the “unwanted people,” without a country or home, forced to flee again and again searching for peace. Theirs becomes a life-changing and forbidden relationship. Both are forced to reevaluate their lives and contend with cultural taboos, xenophobia, and the violent persecution of Romani refugees in Italy today.
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