Pier Vittorio Tondelli

'An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief' NEW YORK TIMES 'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart... One of the best novels I've ever read' ANDREW SEAN GREER 'A novel of dignified beauty' OBSERVER 'A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism'...

An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief NEW YORK TIMES "I want everyone to read it; I want to press it into people's hands. Surely one of the best novels I've ever read" ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of Less "A novel of dignified beauty" OBSERVER "A stunning novel . . . prepare to be deeply moved" JACK PARLETT,...

Summer 1983, Rimini. On the beaches and in the nightclubs of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption. A woman searching for her runaway teenage sister - and a new life after the end of her marriage....