{"product_id":"bug-paperback-3","title":"Bug - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGiacomo Sartori\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFrederika Randall\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel \u003ci\u003eI Am God\u003c\/i\u003e, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of \u003ci\u003eBug\u003c\/i\u003e, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot. His grandfather, a retired anarchist-guerilla-turned-nematologist, chides him for misbehaving when he takes him hunting for worms. Meanwhile, his Buddhist beekeeper mother, ordinarily his closest confidante, has been in a coma ever since a terrible car accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust when the family's survival in their converted chicken coop seems most precarious, someone--or some\u003ci\u003ething\u003c\/i\u003e--new enters his life: Bug. This self-declared \"fast friend\" seems to know all about his family and has some creative, if not strictly legal, ideas about how to help....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novelist, poet, and dramatist \u003cb\u003eGiacomo Sartori \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1958 in Trento, Italy. He is an agronomist specializing in soil studies. Sartori has published seven novels, four collections of stories, poetry, and texts for the stage, and he is an editor of the literary collective \u003ci\u003eNazione Indiana\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives between Paris and Trento.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederika Randall\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Pittsburgh and has lived in Italy for more than 30 years. A journalist and translator from Italian, she has written cultural reportage for numerous US and Italian publications. She translated the epic novel of the \u003ci\u003eRisorgimento\u003c\/i\u003e, Ippolito Nievo's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of An Italian\u003c\/i\u003e, fiction by Guido Morselli, Luigi Meneghello, Ottavio Cappellani, Helena Janeczek, Igiaba Scego and Davide Orecchio, and three volumes of nonfiction by historian Sergio Luzzatto. Awards include a Pen-Heim grant, and with Luzzatto, the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. More at frederikarandall.wordpress.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47250220876025,"sku":"9781632062741","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Z1NJSEZzN2J6bEYvazAxcGg4T0hidz09_1164adee-0ee3-4734-8fc5-65af24308ce5.webp?v=1768659762","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bug-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}