"It can be read in one breath and can be read slowly, savoring word by word, sentence by sentence, vision by vision.... An extraordinary book." Paolo Di Stefano, Corriere della Sera "A breathtaking debut." Massimo Arcidiacono, La Gazzetta dello Sport "A writing of enviable measure.... If every book has a voice, this one makes itself heard and loved because it never raises it, its voice. It doesn't shout, it doesn't rant even when it touches on pain, defeat and death." Michele Serra, Vanity Fair Birth, even more than death, is the one thing we all really have in common, always and forever. Not only is it the unrepeatable moment when we come into the world. It is also the first day of a beautiful and equally unrepeatable season of life: childhood. An exceptional debutant, Carlo Verdelli collects in these pages the slow and inexorable transformation of children's emotions, the mistakes and experiences of the adults who became parents of those children. But who of those children retain the dreamy gaze. Because good dreams are not remembered. But good memories are not forgotten.