The new novel by Sandro Veronesi ‘Settembre Nero’ will be presented tomorrow in Rome

He tells the growth of a twelve -year -old boy, Gigio Bellandi, during a summer in Versilia in 1972. The discovery of music, reading, of restlessness, desire, love – and then of all this the unthinkable, lightning -side interruption.

Around Gigio, victims and guilty mixed together, in a constellation of poignant and unforgettable characters: the father-Tripon, the mother-length, the heroic sister and the two main responsible for his sudden blossoming: his uncle Giotti, mysterious, very shy and pure master of the strength, and Astel Raimondi, the girl from the Treccine “” black as black “, with the indelible sign of love.

A new book for the author who won two witch awards

But it is also a novel about the evocative power of the words – “Muflone ​​Muflone ​​Muflone ​​Muflone” – and on the seductive and salvific one of the language, because it tells the explosion of a pure and surprising talent, also destined to last forever: that for the translation. The narrative voice is by Gigio himself, from the windy mountain of his sixty years, because evidently he has made it to restore the wound and to go further, that is, to ‘translate’ in the end also himself, thus becoming the last of the ‘normal heroes’ so dear to Veronesi.

Born in Florence in 1959 Veronesi graduated in architecture; With “Il Colibrì”, released in 2019 and translated into 27 languages, he won the Strega Prize for the second time. Sandro Veronesi has collaborated with numerous newspapers and almost all literary magazines. He currently collaborates with the ᷾ “Corriere della Sera”. Since October 2020 he has been a member of the Committee for the right to rescue. He has five children and lives in Rome.