Solo vera è l’estate
by Pecoraro FrancescoTwenty July 2001. Between the Roman coastline and the G8 in Genoa, three guys in their thirties and a woman they all three desire. It is the day that stops history, the day that changes their existence and that of everyone forever. It is 20 July 2001. Three friends in their early thirties are in a car on the Pontina road, on their way from Rome to the coast, where an evening like any other awaits them, the birthday party of the cousin of one of them. Enzo, Giacomo and Filippo have their origins in common – all three come from Mamiani, the most politicised high school in the capital – and are facing an adult life more complicated and difficult than expected; they are also united by their ambiguous friendship with Biba, who is not with them this evening. On the same day, tens of thousands of other young people find themselves further north, in Genoa, where the G8 is taking place: the gratuitous ferocity with which the bodies and ideas of the protesters are annihilated both produces and embodies the authentic crest of our history, but also an irreversible point of passage in the existential trajectory of the four protagonists. At dawn on 21 July, a clear summer dawn, nothing seems to have changed, but nothing will ever be the same again, for any of them – and for any of us.
- Publishing house Ponte alle Grazie
- Year of publication 2023
- Number of pages 208
- ISBN 9788868338671
- Foreign Rights viviana.vuscovich@maurispagnol.it
- Ebook disponibile
- Price 16.00
Pecoraro Francesco
Francesco Pecoraro works as an urban architect for the municipality of Rome. He has been writing poetry and essays on art and architecture for some twenty years. He has published the short stories in Dove credi di andare (Mondadori, 2007), the poems in Primordio vertebrale (Ponte Sisto, 2012) and Questa e altre preistorie (Le Lettere, 2008). With his novel La vita in tempo di pace he was nominated for the 2014 Premio Strega. In 2019, Lo stradone was published by Ponte alle Grazie.