The story of a small Italian town where fishing, biking, and rock 'n' roll make the news, until tragedy turns everything upside down. Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cycling phenomenon, and Tiziana, the smart but frustrated head of the local youth center turned refuge for the town's hard-drinking seniors, his world will never be the same. From the brink of despair they fight their way back through honesty, resilience, and laughter, their fates interweaving in a story that is at once achingly funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor. Told with the tenderness of a Fellini film, this contemporary novel continues the great tradition of Italian literature and cinema.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: The Other Press
ISBN: 9781590516812
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 17/06/2014
Año de edición: 2014
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Fabio Genovesi
Fabio Genovesi (Forte dei Marmi, 1974) ha escrit guions de cinema, obres teatrals, reportatges per a Rolling Stone i altres revistes musicals, i articles sobre ciclisme juvenil al diari Il Tirreno. També ha traduït autors de culte com Hunter S. Thompson. Ha publicat les novel·les Cadrò, sognando di volare (2020), Il mare dove non si tocca (2017, Premi Viareggio), Chi manda le onde (2015, Premi Strega Jove), Versilia Rock City (2012) i Esche vive (2011), i l’assaig Morte dei Marmi (2012). Durant la retransmissió en directe del Giro d’Itàlia i del Tour de França per a la Rai 2 i Rai Sport, explica les històries dels llocs per on passen els ciclistes. Col·labora amb el Corriere della Sera i el setmanari del mateix diari, La Lettura.