num_pages: 256
description: 
  An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright
   
  
    
      My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army. 
       
      In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius. 
    
  

language: English
title: My First Seven Years
titlecomplete: My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More)
genres: Theatre, Nobel Prize, Italian Literature, Italy, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 166
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books