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The Last Teacher - cover

The Last Teacher

Fernando De Benedictis

Translator Simona Casaccia

Publisher: Tektime

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Summary

A truth teacher's lonely struggle against hypocrisy and abuse

”The last Teacher” is the drama of a high school teacher forced to deal with a gang of bullies, a beautiful and too uninhibited girl, their dissolute parents, a corrupt and hostile principal, and several colleagues who pretend not to see what is going on in the school out of fear, hypocrisy and self-interest. Rigid and somewhat out of touch, but deeply honest, he is enemy number one on the ”animal farm” definitively devoted to single-mindedness, and therefore pays his defense of the truth at a very high price.
Available since: 06/30/2023.
Print length: 837 pages.

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