Einaudi
It’s the summer of 1982. Italy has just won the World Cup and the streets of Milan are deserted. Demo, Elia and Fabiano find an abandoned apartment on one of the city’s canals and decide to turn it into their kingdom, a place they can invite their new friends like Ric. Then they meet Valli, and she’s a vision. Her very presence upsets the awkward male balance in the Kingdom and injects a degree of erotic tension that the teenagers long for and fear so greatly. And when, in the space of one night, the damage is done, the lives of all the characters will have changed forever.
Raul Montanari has published twelve novels and three short story collections. His works include La perfezione(1994), Che cosa hai fatto (2001), Chiudi gli occhi (2004),L’esistenza di dio (2006), La prima notte (2008), and Strane cose, domani (2009). Together with Aldo Nove and Tiziano Scarpa, Montanari co-wrote Nelle galassie oggi come oggi(2001). He has also written plays, screenplays and translations of classic and modern literary works. He is the director of the literary festival Presente Prossimo, and, since 1999, one of Italy’s leading schools of creative writing.