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The novel explores the end of one world and the beginning of a new one, marked by climate change and inner transformation. During a devastating summer when the Tiber floods Rome, the city and the lives of the protagonists Elena and Ettore are turned upside down. Their marriage is coming to an end, and the […]

Jonas Lyrer is an introverted 20-year-old who loves plants. He feels more at home among his green companions than he does among humans. With his strange, woodland-Dionysus-like appearance, he has always been ostracised, by both his peers and his own family. Growing up in the decadent Drys mansion with a semi-alcoholic father and an eccentric […]

On the shores of Chesapeake Bay, a landscape long shaped by water, three siblings are forced to let go of their childhood home. Rising seas, storms, and repeated flooding have made saving it impossible, and its sale marks an irreversible break. As they face the final move, Anna, Geoff, and Bruno are allowed to keep […]

A group of colleagues from Bomba Agency — seven adults, a child, and a cat — retreat to a countryside house to escape the grip of the city suffocated by the hottest summer in the past two centuries. Officially, it is a week of collective work to prepare an important presentation, but isolation soon reveals […]

In Gli straordinari by Edoardo Vitale, Nico and Elsa, who met at university in Rome during the years of economic crisis, have built both a personal and professional path together. After a beginning marked by precarious jobs and shared apartments, they join pANGEA, a multinational focused on sustainability, eventually becoming creative directors of the Digital […]

La casa mangia le parole (Ponte alle Grazie, 2019) by Leonardo G. Luccone opens on New Year’s Eve, 2011. Engineer De Stefano and his wife, who appear to the outside world as a perfect couple, are in fact going through a deep crisis they cannot admit to their families. Their beloved son Emanuele seems to […]

The novel recounts the existential crisis of Mauro Barbi, a historian obsessed with the Little Ice Age. After the breakdown of a relationship and a series of emotional setbacks, he embarks on a journey around Lake Constance. There, he seeks answers to questions that people and historical sources cannot provide. Attempting to rebuild old relationships, […]

The story follows Paolo, a 40-year-old writer facing a creative block and difficulties in his marriage to Lorenza, as he navigates a period of professional and personal crisis. After meeting Jacopo Novelli, a climatologist passionate about clouds, Paolo starts to consider the ecological challenges of our time, such as climate change and its consequences. Meanwhile, […]