“482” by Isotta Blue is released, the novel about desire and failed choices

How profound can a meeting that arrives at the wrong time be? And how much can a person we couldn’t really choose change a life? It comes from these questions “482”, the debut novel by Isolde Bluepublished by Europa Edizioni and available in bookstores and the main online stores.

Two lives, two voices, two different ways of facing the void. She seeks recognition capable of giving her back identity and space within an existence that seems to progressively cancel her out. Instead he seeks a physical outlet, the attempt to fill an absence hidden behind the image of an apparently perfect life.

Their meeting takes place in an intimate and suspended dimension. “482” is the invisible room in which fragility and resistance, fear and courage, desire and responsibility end up confronting each other defenselessly.

But “482” is not a love story in the traditional sense of the word. It is the story of two people who meet too deeply and, perhaps, too late. Two human beings forced to deal not only with what they feel, but also with the weight of their own choices, with family responsibilities and with the need to continue to be strong for others.

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The novel addresses one of the more universal and contemporary conflicts: that between the life we ​​have built and the one that, in another possibility of existence, we would perhaps have wanted to choose.

With a narrative built around two sensitivities and two different forms of loneliness, Isotta Blue leads the reader into an emotional relationship made of closeness and distance, attraction and fear, words spoken and decisions continually postponed.

At the center of the book is not only the relationship between a man and a woman, but the often unconfessed need to finally be recognized. Of no longer being just parents, companions, professionals or points of reference for others, but fragile, contradictory people who are still capable of desiring.
“482” tells the moment when someone can really see us, beyond the ordered life we ​​show to the world. And it also tells of the fear that can arise when that look calls into question everything that, up until that moment, we have considered stable.

A novel about failed love, suffocated identities and possibilities that remain suspended. Because some people don’t come into our lives to stay, but to show us the part of us that we had stopped listening to.

The author

Isotta Blue, born in Rome in 1994, believes that every story deserves to be observed from multiple points of view and that the truth is often found beyond what appears. With “482” he made his literary debut, choosing to tell the complexity of feelings without judgment and without simple solutions, through characters suspended between the desire to change and the fear of the consequences.