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Nan A. Talese
August 2008
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Featuring: Lawrence
240 pages
ISBN: 0385526253
EAN: 9780385526258
Hardcover
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Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family. He
carefully watches over his willful little sister, Jemima,
and his mother, Hannah. When Hannah becomes convinced that
their estranged father is stalking them, the family flees
London and heads for Rome, where Hannah lived happily as a
young woman. For Lawrence, fascinated by stories of popes
and emperors, Rome is an adventure. Though they are short
of money, and move from home to home, staying with his
mother’s old friends, little by little their new life seems
to be taking shape. But the trouble that brought them to
Italy will not quite leave them in peace. Narrated in Lawrence’s perfectly rendered voice, When We
Were Romans powerfully evokes the emotions and confusions
of childhood—the triumphs, the jealousies, the fears, and
the love. Even as everything he understands is turned
upside down, Lawrence remains determined to keep his family
together, viewing the world from a perspective that is at
once endearingly innocent and preternaturally wise.
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