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Si possono abbandonare il proprio padre e la propria madre? Si può sbattere la porta, scendere le scale e decidere che non li si vedrà più? Mettere in discussione l’origine, sfuggire alla sua stretta? Dopo dieci anni sottratti al logoramento di una violenza sottile e pervasiva tra le mura...

Introduzione letta da Riccardo Mei. C’era una volta un bambino che portava a spasso il suo dolore, se lo portava ovunque. Proprio come il suo padrone, il suo dolore era un cucciolo, “aveva il pelo corto e gli occhi che chiedevano tutto”. Il bambino se ne prende cura, lo nutre come un...

A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity runs rampant.

É possível se desligar do passado, cortar os vínculos com os pais e começar a vida do zero? Essa pergunta sintetiza o movimento que o narrador deste romance empreende ao se despedir — silenciosa e definitivamente — de sua família. Livro vencedor do prêmio Strega 2025, maior honraria da...

"A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other." —Jhumpa Lahiri A subtle yet heartrending portrait of an abusive marriage in patriarchal Italy and a son's liberating decision to cut contact with his parents. Can you leave your...

'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I’ve changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I’ve erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They’ve been the best ten years of my life.' A son is celebrating a bittersweet anniversary. It is a...

Zehn Jahre ist es her, dass der Sohn seine Eltern zum letzten Mal gesehen hat. Mit unerbittlicher Präzision erzählt er von seinen Eltern, zeichnet das ergreifende Porträt seiner Mutter, die ihr eigenes Leben aufgegeben hat, um den Ansprüchen des tyrannischen Vaters gerecht zu werden. Stückweise nähert sich der Sohn der Frau an, deren Persönlichkeit hinter ihren Rollen als Ehefrau, Hausfrau und sorgender Mutter verschwindet.