Pier Paolo Pasolini

Vincenzo Cerami

Ragazzi di vita

Claire 

Anna 

Joshua Line

Gabriele

Ofelia

An unsentimental depiction of the poverty and chaos of life in the slums of 1950s postwar Rome, this novel follows Ricetto, an Italian youth, and his gang who survive by their wits, their cruelty, and their instincts for survival. Their lives are shaped by hunger, theft, betrayal, and prostitution, and they celebrate their triumphs with brutal abandon and die bleak deaths.

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