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'Lingua Franca' follows innocent abroad, Steven Flowers, as he travels from National Service in South-East Asia to 1950s Florence. He soon finds himself working for a chaotically-run language school, together with a cosmopolitan muddle of six foreign misfits killing their post-war nihilism in the cafes of Florence, the cradle of Renaissance high culture.

Added by Upcoming Robot on November 16, 2010