We Want Everything: A Novel

We Want Everything: A Novel

Explosive novel of Italyâ€™s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist

It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would erupt in what became known as Italyâ€™s â€œHot Autumn.â€

A young worker from the impoverished south arrives at Fiatâ€™s Mirafiori factory in Turin, where his darker complexion begins to fade from the fourteen-hour workdays in sweltering industrial heat. He is frequently late for work, and sells his blood when money runs low. He fakes a crushed finger to win sick leave. His bosses try to withhold his wages. Our cynical, dry-witted narrator will not bend to their will. â€œI want everything, everything thatâ€™s owed to me,â€ he tells them. â€œNothing more and nothing less, because you donâ€™t mess with me.â€

Around him, students are holding secret meetings and union workers begin halting work on the assembly lines, crippling the Mirafiori factory with months of continuous strikes. Before long, barricades line the roads, tear gas wafts into private homes, and the slogan â€œWe Want Everythingâ€ is ringing through the streets. Wrought in spare and measured prose, Balestriniâ€™s novel depicts an explosive uprising. Introduced by Rachel Kushner, the author of the best-selling The Flamethrowers, We Want Everything is the incendiary fictional account of events that led to a decade of revolt.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2016-06-21
UnitCount 1
UPCs 001784783684
EANs 9781784783686

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2016-06-21
UnitCount	1
UPCs	001784783684
EANs	9781784783686

We Want Everything: A Novel

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