Daniele is twenty years old and this is a summer he won't forget. A large hospital room, with six beds, is where he finds himself when he wakes up. He has no idea how he got there, until he is told that a TSO has been ordered for him: compulsory medical treatment, after he was struck by a very violent fit of rage. He will have to spend seven days under observation, talking to psychiatrists, trying to explain why the world hurts him so much. In reality Daniele is a boy like many others, but endowed with extreme sensitivity, his experiences are a succession of peaks and abysses: is it possible that no one notices how fragile and exposed we are to the whims of fate? How much is life a play that distances us from who we really are? Alongside him, his roommates in the psychiatry ward: disturbing and tender characters, rambling yet wise, overwhelmed by life exactly like him. Like him, incapable of not suffering, and of not loving excessively. From Madonnina's restless eyes to the black and white photo of Giorgio's mother, from Gianluca's ferocious joy to Mario's resurrected bird. Until Alessandro's absolute nothingness. United by hospitalization and the suffocating heat, questioned by indifferent doctors, handled by frightened nurses, Daniele and the others feel a sense of brotherhood and a need for mutual support they have never felt arise day after day. "They are the five crazy people with whom I shared the room and this week of my life. With them I had no chance to lie, to play the part of perfect, they welcomed me for who I am, for my nature so similar to theirs ." In this extraordinary novel, winner of the 2020 Strega Giovani award, Daniele Mencarelli stages the desperate, angry search for meaning of a boy who begs for salvation.
Daniele is twenty years old and this is a summer he won't forget. A large hospital room, with six beds, is where he finds himself when he wakes up. He has no idea how he got there, until he is told that a TSO has been ordered for him: compulsory medical treatment, after he was struck by a very violent fit of rage. He will have to spend seven days under observation, talking to psychiatrists, trying to explain why the world hurts him so much. In reality Daniele is a boy like many others, but endowed with extreme sensitivity, his experiences are a succession of peaks and abysses: is it possible that no one notices how fragile and exposed we are to the whims of fate? How much is life a play that distances us from who we really are? Alongside him, his roommates in the psychiatry ward: disturbing and tender characters, rambling yet wise, overwhelmed by life exactly like him. Like him, incapable of not suffering, and of not loving excessively. From Madonnina's restless eyes to the black and white photo of Giorgio's mother, from Gianluca's ferocious joy to Mario's resurrected bird. Until Alessandro's absolute nothingness. United by hospitalization and the suffocating heat, questioned by indifferent doctors, handled by frightened nurses, Daniele and the others feel a sense of brotherhood and a need for mutual support they have never felt arise day after day. "They are the five crazy people with whom I shared the room and this week of my life. With them I had no chance to lie, to play the part of perfect, they welcomed me for who I am, for my nature so similar to theirs ." In this extraordinary novel, winner of the 2020 Strega Giovani award, Daniele Mencarelli stages the desperate, angry search for meaning of a boy who begs for salvation.
Daniele is twenty years old and this is a summer he won't forget. A large hospital room, with six beds, is where he finds himself when he wakes up. He has no idea how he got there, until he is told that a TSO has been ordered for him: compulsory medical treatment, after he was struck by a very violent fit of rage. He will have to spend seven days under observation, talking to psychiatrists, trying to explain why the world hurts him so much. In reality Daniele is a boy like many others, but endowed with extreme sensitivity, his experiences are a succession of peaks and abysses: is it possible that no one notices how fragile and exposed we are to the whims of fate? How much is life a play that distances us from who we really are? Alongside him, his roommates in the psychiatry ward: disturbing and tender characters, rambling yet wise, overwhelmed by life exactly like him. Like him, incapable of not suffering, and of not loving excessively. From Madonnina's restless eyes to the black and white photo of Giorgio's mother, from Gianluca's ferocious joy to Mario's resurrected bird. Until Alessandro's absolute nothingness. United by hospitalization and the suffocating heat, questioned by indifferent doctors, handled by frightened nurses, Daniele and the others feel a sense of brotherhood and a need for mutual support they have never felt arise day after day. "They are the five crazy people with whom I shared the room and this week of my life. With them I had no chance to lie, to play the part of perfect, they welcomed me for who I am, for my nature so similar to theirs ." In this extraordinary novel, winner of the 2020 Strega Giovani award, Daniele Mencarelli stages the desperate, angry search for meaning of a boy who begs for salvation.
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