Description
In post-war Rome, where survival is measured in meals and luck, Riccetto and his friends—street adolescents of the urban underclass—scrape by through odd jobs, petty theft, and the brutal compromises of life on the margins. As they drift through the city’s chaotic streets, their days blur between small hustles and escalating risks, revealing how poverty can shape identity, loyalty, and desire. Pasolini’s sharp, unsentimental storytelling brings the street world into vivid focus, blending social realism with a searching, often unsettling empathy for young lives caught between innocence and exploitation. The novel explores themes of class, violence, moral ambiguity, and the thin line between community and coercion in a society rebuilding itself at the cost of its most vulnerable.
Available Editions
paperback
Europa Editions
Published Aug 30, 2016
240 pages
ISBN: 9781609453084
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Translation
From: ita
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Street Kids by Pier Paolo Pasolini.