Casa è dove fa male
by Cuomo, Massimo
A sophisticated literary game based on one, simple question: what if these walls could really talk?
In the isolated suburbs of Mestre, a lonely building speaks for itself. Its inhabitants, ordinary people at a first glance, are something else behind closed doors. Looking at the truth can be disgusting, scary, even grotesque.
On the ground floor, Mr and Mrs Busetto are envious, stuck behind the peephole, looking at the Chinellatos across the hall – they are always hungry, while angry is Severino Schiurru, on the first floor, and the Ruzzene family think very highly of themselves. On the second floor, a couple is saving every penny, and just across the hall Tommaso Sbrogio and his young partner can’t take their hands off each other. Third floor, Mrs Menegozzo and her daughter – they’re so tired, all the time. The more you read, the more their behaviour seems oddly
familiar . . . The characters are being watched, but they also spy on each other: every confession sounds like a rumour. Up the stairs the plot thickens: what hides in the eighth flat?
A literary gem that feels like looking at yourself in the mirror in a dark room: what sparks out of nothing?
- Publishing house E/O
- Year of publication 2021
- Number of pages 188
- ISBN 9788833572857
- Foreign Rights Emanuela Anechoum, emanuelaanechoum@edizionieo.it
- Foreign Rights sold Rights sold to Geparden Verlag in Germany
- Ebook Disponibile
- Price 16.50
Cuomo, Massimo
Massimo Cuomo was born in Venice in 1974 and lives in Portogruaro, in a house that is closer to the countryside than to the city. He is the author of three novels and teaches creative writing to inmates of the Rieti prison in Italy. Beautiful is his first book to appear in English (Europa Editions 2020). E/O also published Malcom (2011) and Piccola osteria senza parole (2014).