{"id":5372,"date":"2023-06-07T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:04","slug":"book-talk-carcaterra-street-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-carcaterra-street-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Carcaterra, \u2018Street Boys\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5372\" class=\"elementor elementor-5372\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25837006 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"25837006\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c3de317 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c3de317\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Lorenzo Carcaterra is one of my favorite authors of fiction that is loosely based on historical fact. However, his novel \u201cStreet Boys\u201d (2002, 336 pages in paperback format) seemed like such foolishness that I had to check the history of World War II in Italy to find out how closely he followed actual events. Fact: It is, indeed, fabrication that stretched my imagination to the breaking point. That doesn\u2019t make it a bad story or an inferior book. It simply means that the reader must be prepared to read a supposedly fact-based book as pure fantasy.<\/p><p>\u201cStreet Boys\u201d is based on \u201cFour Days in Naples\u201d when residents staged protests, demonstrations, and rebellion against the occupying Nazi forces. In 1943, on September 27, 28, 29, and 30, there were violent outbreaks in various parts of Naples by various contingents of people. On October 1, German forces began to clear out because of the arrival of allied troops.<\/p><p>Carcaterra\u2019s fictional account informs us that all of the adult population (along with virtually all of their young daughters) had evacuated the city. All that remained were the scugnizzi, boyhood street urchins who were left with bombed-out houses, no electric power, and enough \u201cfood scraps\u201d to keep them alive (with no explanation of where such \u201cscraps\u201d originated). Aside from the kids (who ranged in age from about 4 to 16), there was an old drunk and his beautiful daughter Nunzia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Carcaterra is one of my favorite authors of fiction that is loosely based on historical fact. However, his novel \u201cStreet Boys\u201d (2002, 336 pages in paperback format) seemed like such foolishness that I had to check the history of World War II in Italy to find out how closely he followed actual events. Fact: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,39,45],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-government","tag-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}