And then he strikes: Davide Coppo’s novel “Tomorrow Belongs to Us”

A gentle boy searches for his place in life – and finds a neo-fascist community. In his novel “Tomorrow Belongs to Us”, Italian author Davide Coppo shows what drives young people into the arms of the right.

Davide Coppo’s short, dense novel “The Tomorrow Belongs to Us” tells the story of a young person’s radicalization, sensitively and depressingly understandable. Depressing because it is about a path to right-wing radicalism, which is traced step by step with relentless precision and empirical detail. It is actually a coming-of-age story, told by the author, as in Wolfgang Herrndorf’s “Tschick”, the unattainable high point of this genre.