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Badly Loved Children

Badly Loved Children is an intense, layered, and polyphonic novel. It begins with the story of two young lives: Raffaele and Monica meet in a clinic for eating disorders. Narrated in the first person by both protagonists, the story unfolds across two temporal planes: the present, marked by a fragile yet profound complicity, and the past, rooted in a dense tangle of family origins.

With sharp, agile prose that digs deep beneath the skin, Basilio Petruzza constructs a sprawling genealogical tree in which one character’s truth finds meaning through another’s, and perhaps also through the reader’s own. Through the multiplicity of voices and perspectives, the novel reveals the essence of love, pain, and inheritance: the way we are all, inevitably, someone’s child.

Arbor Libri

Founded in 2023 within the publishing ecosystem of Services4Media, Arbor Libri shares its headquarters with S4M Edizioni, an established independent publisher active in the Lazio and Apulia regions of Italy.

Arbor Libri was created to champion outstanding contemporary Italian fiction, with a particular focus on novels and short story collections that resist conventional genre classifications. We seek works defined by the originality of the author’s voice and the depth of their central ideas.

Each year we publish only seven titles, following a highly selective editorial process. We look for distinctive literary voices and stories that, while deeply personal, speak to a broad readership. This careful selection allows us to guarantee not only the quality of our catalogue, but also the quality of every book we produce.

A Book Made to Be Held

At Arbor Libri, we believe that the reading experience extends beyond the text itself. Every volume is printed on FSC-certified paper, produced without plastic lamination, and bound using sewn signatures to minimise the use of glue.

The result is a durable book that opens effortlessly and remains comfortably flat while reading, whether placed on a table or held in the hands.

This is made possible by our exposed sewn spine, a technical solution that offers greater flexibility and reading comfort than traditional perfect binding. It is a small but meaningful detail—one that true book lovers immediately recognise and appreciate.

Arbor Libri

”黎明之书“出版社于2023年诞生于”服务媒体”公司（Services4Media）的出版生态体系之内，与老牌出版社”S4M出版社”（S4M Edizioni）共享办公地址，后者长期活跃于意大利拉齐奥大区与普利亚大区。

这一品牌应运而生，旨在为优质的意大利本土文学作品提供发展空间，尤其关注那些不囿于亚类型创作套路，而是凭借作者独特文风与深刻主题内涵而立足的长篇小说与短篇小说集。

我们每年仅精选七部作品，标准极为严苛：我们寻找的是具有辨识度、能够脱颖而出的独特声音，以及那些虽风格独特，却能引发普遍共鸣的故事。正因如此，我们才能向读者保证品质，不仅体现在内容层面，也体现在图书这一实体载体本身。

一本捧在手中也美的书

”黎明之书“出版社不仅关注内容本身，也同样重视阅读的手感体验。为此，我们的每一本书均采用FSC认证纸张印刷，不做塑封处理，并采用锁线装订工艺，将胶水的使用降到最低限度。

由此成就的图书经久耐用，翻阅轻松自如，平放于桌面或靠枕之上，也不会自行合拢。

这一效果得益于”不粘背”（锁线不上胶）工艺——相较于传统胶装平装书常见的僵硬手感，这一技术方案能带来更出色的柔韧性与舒适阅读体验。这一细节，真正热爱阅读的人定能体会其中匠心。

Arbor Libri

Arbor Libri se fundó en 2023 dentro del ecosistema editorial de Services4Media, y comparte sede con S4M Edizioni, una editorial histórica con presencia en Lacio y Apulia.

Es un sello editorial que ha surgido para dar cabida a la narrativa italiana de calidad, prestando especial atención a las novelas y colecciones de relatos que no se pliegan a la lógica de los subgéneros, sino que encuentran su fuerza en la identidad estilística del autor y en la profundidad temática.

Cada año seleccionamos solo siete títulos, siguiendo un criterio riguroso: buscamos voces e historias reconocibles y destacadas que, a pesar de su singularidad, conecten con todo el mundo. Esto nos permite ofrecer a los lectores una garantía de calidad, no solo en el contenido, sino también en el libro en sí.

Un libro que da gusto tener en las manos

Arbor Libri no solo presta atención al contenido, sino también a la experiencia física de la lectura. Por eso, todos nuestros libros se imprimen en papel con certificación FSC, sin plastificado y con encuadernación cosida, lo que reduce al mínimo el uso de pegamento.

El resultado es un libro que perdura en el tiempo y que se abre sin esfuerzo, permaneciendo apoyado sobre una mesa o un cojín sin cerrarse.

Esto es posible gracias al lomo sin costuras, una solución técnica que garantiza una mayor flexibilidad y comodidad, a diferencia de las encuadernaciones tradicionales pegadas, que suelen ser demasiado rígidas. Un detalle que los verdaderos amantes de los libros apreciarán.