Il cuore non si vede
In the mood of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. A wild, almost sentimental novel about the things that kill us and the people who keep us alive. After waking up from disturbing dreams, one morning Andrea discovers his heart is missing. He’s definitely not dead, but is he really alive? He’s merely fading away under the distracted gaze of the women around him, for whom nothing seems to be amiss. Muscles and bones aren’t the only things keeping us alive. We are also the product of our relationships with others. Could Andrea be unable to die because he is unable to live?
Chiara Valerio is a writer, translator and collaborates with television and radio programs. She was born in Scauri (in the province of Latina) in 1978, holds a doctorate in mathematics from the Federico II University of Naples and lives in Rome. She has written novels and short stories, including: A complicare le cose (Robin 2007), La gioia piccola d’esser quasi salvi (nottetempo 2009), Spiaggia libera tutti (Laterza 2010). She translated Flush di Virginia Woolf (nottetempo 2012).Almanacco del giorno prima (2014) is the first novel published for Einaudi. For the same publishing house She published Human History of Mathematics (2016) that was translated in Dutch. She is editor of ‘New Topics’, he writes for ‘L’Unità’, the ‘Sunday’ of ‘Sole 24 Ore’ and ‘Glamor’. Among his collaborations: ‘aloud’, broadcast of Radio3 and ‘daily bread’ , Rai3 television program.
