Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali

John awoke from a coma in July 2017. He was 20 years old when his life came to an end. His last memory, before the accident, is in Piazza San Giovanni, on 13 June 1984. Together with his father and girlfriend, he is taking part in the collective grief over the death of Enrico Berlinguer. After more than thirty years, life begins again. Giovanni is reborn, an adult. Everything has changed. He finds himself in a new century, in a new millennium. There is no longer the world he left behind: the parties, the states, the personalities. The way of living, of knowing, of communicating is turned upside down, an unknown universe for him. Giovanni is like a fifty-year-old child. He must learn a new life and learn, accepting it, the fate of those he loved when he was twenty. Helping him to be reborn are Giulia, the tormented nun who has looked after him for most of his hospital stay, Daniela, the psychologist with a subtle melancholy, and her son Enrico, a wise and disillusioned boy. ‘When’ does not only celebrate the collective memory of a distant but deep-rooted era. It is the tale of the present, wonderful and terrible, recognised with the sharpness of eyes that encounter it for the first time. It is the novel for each one of us: for those who have experienced, without ever feeling alone, the strength of an ideal or have missed it for reasons of age and feel its power or regret.

Publication date: 16.10.2018
Publisher: Rizzoli
Number of Pages: 317
Country: Italy