The meeting between a man and a woman bound by a pact. A meeting during which every week a fascinating and mysterious stranger tells Silvia the truth about her. An hour to reveal the unspeakable details of the story that linked him to his sister Federica, who died a few days earlier in a car accident. For her part, Silvia committed herself to discovering the identity of her interlocutor. This is the narrative starting point from which ‘L’amore non lo visto nobo’ (Rizzoli), the latest book by the journalist and writer Giovanni Grasso, advisor to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella for press and communication since 2015, begins .
An expedient that allows the author to thoroughly investigate the authentic meaning of life and that puts readers face to face with the need “to forgive and to forgive ourselves”, as we read on the back cover. Is the story that the mysterious man gradually gives to Silvia really reliable? Can the woman trust him? These are the questions that animate the readers of Grasso’s book who, for Rizzoli, has already published ‘The Kaufmann case’ in 2019, ‘Icaro. The Flight over Rome’ in 2021 and ‘The Secret of Lieutenant Giardina’ in 2023.
Questions that in reality are summed up in one big question that hovers over the entire story: “Where does love come from?”. A question that doesn’t seem to have a certain answer, so much so that, we read again in the book, “if we knew how to answer this question, we would have revealed the mystery of life”. One thing, however, is certain. The search for the truth will lead Silvia to face the contradictions and secrets that characterized the world in which Federica lived. A world in which “it is easy to lose the boundary between innocence and guilt”.