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Una cantina. Una bugia innocente. L'idea strampalata di una settimana bianca nelle viscere del proprio palazzo. E l'arrivo improvviso di una sconosciuta. Con una manciata di ingredienti Ammaniti costruisce un racconto di fulminea precisione sul piú semplice e imperscrutabile dei misteri: come diventare grandi.
A cellar, an innocent lie told to parents and the bizarre idea of a skiing week in the bowels of one's own building. That's all. With a handful of ingredients and a lean, dry style, Ammaniti tells us the simplest and most inscrutable of mysteries: how to grow up.
Barricaded in the cellar to spend his skiing holiday secretly from everyone, Lorenzo, an introverted and slightly neurotic fourteen-year-old, prepares to live his solipsistic dream of happiness: no conflicts, no schoolmates, no comedies and fictions. The world with its incomprehensible rules outside the door and him sprawled on a sofa, surrounded by Coca-Cola, cans of tuna and horror novels. It will be Olivia, who suddenly falls into the bunker with her rough and frail vitality, who will make Lorenzo cross the shadow line, who will make him shed the mask of a difficult teenager to accept the chaotic game of life out there.
Published by Einaudi , Torino
