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8 July 2020

Il contrario di padre

by Mondadori Sebastiano
Il contrario di padre

When he learns of his father’s death, Giulio has not seen him for thirty years, since that summer of 1977 when his mother had to leave him to her ex-husband.

His mother Elena is anxious and uncompromising, his father Geremia charming and unreliable, Giulio a reserved and sensitive 10-year-old boy with all good marks at school and who leaves for that trip with a notebook full of rules and prohibitions to be respected.

Notes that are soon forgotten: his father takes him to Circeo, Capri, Liguria, and he will learn to drink Coca Cola up until he’s sick, to dive from the highest rock to impress the girls, to walk alone along the darkest stretch of the paths.

Between jokes and lies, nights spent playing poker and unclear chenanigans, together with the lemon scented young girlfriend Clem, Geremia gifts to his son the most beautiful summer he will ever have. So much so that it will be even more difficult to forgive him when, from the end of that August, he will disappear forever.

  • Publishing house Manni
  • Year of publication 2019
  • Number of pages 158
  • ISBN 9788862669436
  • Foreign Rights Clementina Liuzzi Literary Agency
  • Foreign Rights sold NO
  • Ebook
  • Price 14.00 €

Mondadori Sebastiano

Sebastiano Mondadori was born in Milan in 1970. He has lived in Lucca for fifteen years, where he founded and directs the Barnabooth school of creative writing. He published the novels Gli anni incompiuti (2001), Sarai così bellissima (2002), Come Lara e Talita (2003), Un anno fa domani (2009), Miracoli sbagliati (2013), Gli amici che non ho (2015), L’anno dello straniero (2016).

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