The world is devastated by an unexplained phenomenon: it no longer rains, and water is accumulating in the sky like an upside down ocean.
Humanity is paralyzed and no one knows what to do, including the parents of the young boy of this story. Falling prey to panic, the father orders his wife and son to barricade themselves at home while the mother attempts to keep the atmosphere as normal as possible. A few days later, however, something snaps and the situation comes to a head. The parents become irrational and decide to bring into this ending world another child. Only the boy doesn’t want a sibling and runs away. He becomes involved in the apocalypse and meets human types adrift, feral and ruthless while searching his way back home. With warm and persuasive writing, Zucco stages a journey of initiation into the darkness of the human heart, demonstrating that life deserves to be lived to the last and surprising moment.
“With an original style and hypnotic rhythm, Zucco grasps the moment when innocence meets the chaos of the world”. Satisfiction
“A journey to discover who we are when everything falls apart and what binds us to life”. Style
Giuseppe Zucco was born in Locri in 1981. He works
for the Italian state radio and television company Rai. His short stories have appeared in Nuovi Argomenti, Nazione Indiana, minima & moralia, Colla and L’inquieto. He debuted with the novel Il cuore è un cane senza nome, (minimum fax 2017) and then published Tutti bambini (Egg 2016) and I poteri forti
(NNE 2021).
Pub date: February 2025
Length: pp. 224
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