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Peretti, Paola

 
9781471411052: Filippo, Me and the Cherry Tree

Synopsis

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl's battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships. Mafalda is thirteen and has been blind since she was ten. and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems very interested in Filippo . So now Mafalda has to start thinking what Filippo really means to her .

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À propos de l'auteur

Paola Peretti is Italian and was born in the province of Verona, where she still lives today. She studied literature and philosophy and graduated in publishing and journalism in 2011 with a thesis on gender discrimination in literature. Between 2015 and 2016 she attended the Palomar School of creative writing in Rovigo. During and after her studies she worked as a waitress, bartender, baby sitter and teacher, while writing articles for the local newspaper.

Fifteen years ago, she discovered that she was affected by a rare genetic illness called Stargadt Disease which causes progressive vision loss, and eventually blindness. There is no cure to date.

She is currently teaching Italian to immigrant children from Senegal, Nigeria, China, Romania, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Moldova and Russia.

The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree is her first novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl's battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships. Mafalda is thirteen and has been blind since she was ten. and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems very interested in Filippo . So now Mafalda has to start thinking what Filippo really means to her .

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