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WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE
-Mencarelli writes with the grace and power of a poet. His words illuminate truth like a flash of lightning.--Il Sole 24 Ore
-Moving and engaging. This novel will stay with you.--Goffredo Fofi, Internazionale
-Extraordinary for its intensity and empathy.--Radio Tre?
June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage to him and his family. To his horror, he learns that he-s been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward.
Writing with lucid realism and stunning emotional force and drawing from the author''s own personal experience of menta