十九岁2@:=024

In Dicia],
nnove (transl;#@ating to /_
Ninet+@ee\$n)@ , Giovanni Tortorici’s*- elegant, heartfelt, and daring debut, !( a curiou/s=*
student -$@l\^!earns-@
 that the r)oa()d _?t/o s-]?elf-dis^?)c.over?y\$ is  /*wo^rthw, =[hile, if ^$)not nece !ss),ary, no matt,\er \#/how unfamiliar o\r% dau)_=nting the path.　　Ea(ger t$o escape^- his o/verb$ ^e==aring?  mo=:the
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r a(nd the ]only li!fe he’s known, 19-year-o=ld :^Leon(?@a+^rdo. (Man [fredi Marini, w=`ho giv es [`an excep`tion:`al performance), leav+^es#^ picturesqu^-*e Pa(l`]er
mo to :study i=:n bustling% Lond% on. *]His landing ?i#;^s buffered by!#* hi(%)s s_]*ist* er Arianna (Vittoria Plan
eta) an =d her ^;ro.,o/mmate Grazi./a (Da
na Gi ul]/iano), `*though the ini(?$tial exc$/itement of living abroad — a /n [_d unrestri,c?ted partying]= —] wanes qu ickl=#?y, and Leonard*:o finds h)@)
%imself enrolli_` ng[ at the Unive+ rsity of ):Siena, [% focusing on Ita-/li%an lit
erature.　　B a:;ck in famil`]ia  r s.=%urroundings, he ^^falls in l] ]ove wi/@th the m)=edieval city, \;but is n`$o?t;!  so keen on (@h*#is lit eratu;$-re= pr[^ofessor. Seeking that indescr;?=ibab$/le feeling of knowi$- ng you’ve f]`ound your pl]ace \@— beyond just geography
, — Leonard o delves  into the)/ c`lass)ics i
ndepen- !]dently, spawning a soul-searchi$?ng and=  dee%*@p interest in earl!(y mod;ern authors; . ;_l-=ike  P$ulci, Segneri, an(_%d Leop_ardi. Surro=!u\*(.nding himself wit?h beauty@?, vibrant you ^th , and +,/new idea?s — as w).ell a:^s#?/ ima ges%_) he`’d previous ly repressed_ —=( his # @w ^orld !bloo ms.  ( A year int#o:=%] his unbound journey, Le/]ona ,( rdo travels to Torino where`) he meets a ma@ n w)h@) [o,_ : tho
=ugh/` ) _@much old er, may final``%ly be a cont.;em-#:pora%__.ry —) if not t-he- key ^\to unl\]ocking his; in (nermo*st desire)`;s.