# The Fall

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- Book: [The Fall](https://www.bookquiver.com/diogo-mainardi/the-fall) ([The Fall.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/diogo-mainardi/the-fall.md))
- Authors: [Diogo Mainardi](https://www.bookquiver.com/diogo-mainardi)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4816-399-1
- Published: 2014-05-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Fall is a moving portrait of a relationship with a child and a place. It is a rare book: by turns heartbreaking, angry and lyrical' – Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare With Amber Eyes . Step 1: Tito has cerebral palsy. Step 2: I blame Tito’s cerebral palsy on Pietro Lombardo. Join Diogo Mainardi and his son Tito in a journey of 424 steps, starting with Tito’s disastrous birth in Venice, in Lombardo’s Renaissance hospital. It’s a journey full of joy and reflection, and an honest exploration of fatherhood. It’s a journey that follows the arc of Western culture, from Dante Alighieri, Rembrandt van Rijn and Claude Monet to Marcel Proust, Neil Young and Assassin’s Creed , to show how one boy’s fate has been shaped by history. Above all, it’s a celebration of love and courage, and of the hope and faith we place in our children.