Un condominio

In an unspecified place in the desert, on an equally unspecified day, a camel makes a big sneeze, infects what little grass there is in an oasis, and, day after day, a mysterious virus passes from one animal to another, all the way to humans. And so, in the apartment building of a small northern town, the daily lives of the residents take a sudden and traumatic turn. Think of the psychotherapist who overnight can no longer visit his lover; they only exchange messages and video calls, but his wife notices and drama within drama erupts. Or to the young escort, who is not an escort; to the nurse who is overwhelmed by the emergency, but who has an even more serious problem for her, her anorexic daughter; to the Knight who is forced by his son to move to a nursing home; to the two skippers who are forced to stay ashore for many months; to the inventor and somewhat crazy, likeable and big-talking optician. These are the stories of a “human comedy” disrupted by an invisible enemy. A poignant novel, in which Andrea Pamparana, former deputy director of TG5, one of the most important pens of Italian journalism, gives the reader a moving as much as lucid radiography of our times, marked by doubts and uncertainties. Between fiction and reality, a picture emerges of an Italy torn and confused, but still capable of love.