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BOYS AT WAR
World War I In The Story Of The Soldier Peter Pan
In the memorial monument of Monte Grappa (close to Treviso, northern Italy) there is a hungarian soldier with a fairy-tale name, Peter Pan, a man who has surprisingly many points in common with the famous character of J.M. Barrie: the agility – he seems to fly in the trenches –, these young fighters defined «Boys lost» as the protagonists of the English text…
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The tomb of soldier Pan is visited by young people who leave flowers and shells.
The novel by Stefano Motta is the story of this soldier and many others whose hopes and dreams have been extinguished by the Great War. A touching and original story to let young people know the reality of the First World War.
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The Author Presents The Book
Stefano Motta was born in Desio, near Monza, in 1975. He is a scholar of Manzoni and a lover of the mountains. He published narrative texts for the middle school and an edition of Promessi Sposi in comics. For Einaudi Ragazzi he wrote the novel Lale.
