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    Bug
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    Bug
    Audiobook7 hours

    Bug

    Written by Giacomo Sartori

    Narrated by Miles Daniel Johnson

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    With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, 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.

    In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, 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.

    Just when the family’s survival in their converted chicken coop seems most precarious, someone—or something—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....

    Editor's Note

    Lighthearted mischief…

    Our unnamed protagonist is a young, deaf, and misunderstood boy searching for someone to connect with. Then he meets a homemade robot named Bug. This endearing tale of an unlikely friendship includes lighthearted mischief that will bring out the youthful side of any reader.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateDec 21, 2021
    ISBN9781094435756
    Author

    Giacomo Sartori

    The novelist, poet and dramatist Giacomo Sartori was born in 1958 in Trento in the Alpine northeast of Italy near the Austrian border. He lives in Paris. An agronomist, he is a soil specialist whose unusual day job (unusual for a writer) has shaped a distinctive concrete and poetic literary style. A prolific and sophisticated writer of fiction with a dozen volumes to his credit, Sartori took as his subject in his early novels Tritolo (TNT) and Sacrificio (Sacrifice) the stifling provincial atmosphere of the valleys of his native region and the twisted lives of its most vulnerable inhabitants. A recent novel Rogo (At the Stake), also set in the region, is written in the voices of three women from different historical periods who commit infanticide. The autofiction Anatomia della battaglia (The Anatomy of the Battle) about a young man’s effort to come to terms with and define his manhood against the model of his father, a committed Fascist, and the historical novel Cielo nero (Black Heavens), deal with fascism and its dark, persistent allure. Sartori’s shorter fiction includes the book of interrelated absurdist stories Autismi (Autisms, 2018) written in the voice of a person struggling to cope with the bizarre, baffling customs and expectations that all around him seem to share. The black humor and pessimism are reminiscent of Samuel Beckett. Sartori has also published poems and plays, and he has won several Italian literary prizes. Three of his novels have been translated into French. Several stories from Autismi appeared in Frederika Randall’s English translation in Massachusetts Review last year. An excerpt from L’Anatomia della battaglia, also translated by Randall, appeared in The Arkansas International no 2.

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    • 5/5
      This author has a thing for taking on difficult and unusual perspectives. i love that the evil AI wreaking havoc is just a side story to a ten-year-old deaf and autistic boy coping with grief and family dynamics. If this premise intrigues you, read the book. It's extremely well-written.
    • 4/5
      I didn’t think I was going to make it past the first few chapters but it draws you in and even though I haven’t finished it, I am glad I stuck with it!
    • 4/5
      Different yet it draws you in. Showsvdisabilities with school and how they treat them. You have honey bees, robots, and comas. Enjoy

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