beppediamante
It is the story of two young people, Carlo and Sarah, forced to live hidden in the undergrounds of Naples, in a city disfigured by lethal epidemics that have disrupted its social structure. Exacerbated by power struggles and torn apart by increasingly widespread and multi-ethnic crime, the city of Naples appears in the novel as the mirror of a sick world, where arbitrary freedom, devoid of rules and morals, has become utterly indifferent to any value of social justice. It is in this upside-down and hidden Naples that the two young people meet "colliding" accidentally " in a villa, that once was a museum, and now has become a refuge for the girl and her two Sinti brothers.
Both orphans and forced to live on the margins of society, Carlo and Sarah will try to give meaning to their young lives with one last attempt to escape together, across the sea, in search of their own freedom.
In a whirlwind of chance encounters, the novel unravels the stories of Carlo's family. From the grandfather, a mythical figure of his childhood; to the parents, a middle-class Neapolitan family. And finally, the encounter with Sarah and her brothers: young lives adrift in that underground world of abuse, deceit, and violence; a world as sick as the one above.