On the road up to Australia, to an unexpected love, to a reunion with an old friend.
Sebastiano Schiappacasse is a sport journalist for a big Italian newspaper, but he is persuaded his career is practically at an end. He is fifty years old and lives among incidental relationships and temporary collaborations with other newspapers. But one day the phone rings: his boss wants to see him. He must leave for Western Australia, immediately.
There, in a small town, has reappeared Michele Monari: yes, just him, the TV star, the best-seller author who disappeared ten years before leaving no trace. And above all, he is Sebastiano’s best friend: they shared the years of youth, since the tragic event which deeply marked their lives.
Sebastiano is not willing to leave: he risks to break his own stability, colourless but hardly achieved. But in Australia a happy encounter and a new mystery will force him to a new start, to look back, and into the future along the traces of his lost past… A deep friendship, lost and found after many years. The story of how life could begin again, just when it seems over.
Roberto Perrone
Roberto Perrone was born in Rapallo and lives in Milan. He writes about sport, food and travel. He is the author of Zamora (2003), La lunga (2007), Averti trovato ora (2008), Numero 1 (2008), the biography of Gigi Buffon, goalkeeper and captain of the Italian national football team, La ballata dell’amore salato (2009), Occhi negli occhi (2011), La cucina degli amori impossibili (2013), Manuale del viaggiatore goloso (2015), La seconda vita di Annibale Canessa (2017), L’estate degli inganni (2018), L’ultima volontà (2019)and Un odore di Toscano (2022, Premio Iolanda).
- L’ultima volontà (The Last Will)
- L’estate degli inganni (The Summer Of Deceits)
- La seconda vita di Annibale Canessa (The Second Life of Annibale Canessa)
- Il manuale del viaggiatore goloso (Handbook for Gluttonous Travellers)
- La cucina degli amori impossibili (The Cuisine of Impossible Loves)
- Occhi negli occhi (Eyes in the Eyes)