✍ Scribed by Montanari, Raul
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"Milan, 2014. Valerio is twenty-seven years old and has an empty life. He lives in a studio that hovers the presence of the previous owner, his uncle Willy, who died in the odor of Satanism, which is said to have accumulated a treasure never found. To earn something, Valerio rents the apartment for short periods and goes to sleep with a friend. But he has a vice: to enter the house unknown to his guests, to browse through their objects and immerse themselves in fantasy in existences different from his. One of them, the enigmatic Viola, hits him in the heart. Something seems to come up between the two, but Viola disappears and a private detective working for her husband reveals to Valerio the truth: the woman is on the run and perhaps her passage from that house was not accidental. Valerio and the detective team up to look for Viola together, and it is the beginning of a journey that, from the shadows surrounding the Milanese house, finds its dramatic ending in a swamp of the Amazon River. Until, between painful discoveries and glimpses of unexpected happiness, Valerio's life will change forever. A book where the fundamentals of the novel narrative (money, love, adventure, mystery, comedy) capture the reader and merge into the portrait of a true and tender character. And of a generation robbed of its own future and forced to invent the present every day, with anger, but also with irony."--Rough translation of the cover flap summary.;"Milano, 2014. Valerio ha ventisette anni e una vita vuota. Abita in un monolocale su cui aleggia la presenza del precedente proprietario, suo zio Willy, morto in odore di satanismo, che si dice avesse accumulato un tesoro mai ritrovato. Per guadagnare qualcosa, Valerio affitta l'appartamento per brevi periodi e va a dormire da un amico. Ha però un vizio: entrare in casa di nascosto dai suoi ospiti, per curiosare fra i loro oggetti e immergersi con la fantasia in esistenze diverse dalla sua. Una di loro, l'enigmatica Viola, lo colpisce al cuore. Fra i due sembra nascere qualcosa, ma Viola scompare e un detective privato che lavora per suo marito rivela a Valerio la verità: la donna è in fuga e forse il suo passaggio da quella casa non è stato casuale. Valerio e il detective si alleano per cercare Viola insieme, ed è l'inizio di un viaggio che dalle ombre che circondano la casa milanese trova il suo drammatico finale in una palude del Rio delle Amazzoni. Finché, fra scoperte dolorose e squarci di inattesa felicità, la vita di Valerio cambierà per sempre. Un libro dove i fondamenti della narrazione romanzesca (il denaro, l'amore, l'avventura, il mistero, la comicità) catturano il lettore e si fondono nel ritratto di un personaggio vero e tenerissimo. E di una generazione derubata del proprio futuro e costretta a inventarsi il presente ogni giorno, con rabbia, ma anche con ironia."--Cover flap summary.
Italy -- Milan
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