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Everything Calls for Salvation
Tutto chiede salvezza
Daniele Mencarelli (born 1974)
Translated by Wendy Wheatley
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Everything Calls for Salvation
Europa Editions · United States · 2023 · Hardcover · 176 pages
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In June 1994, during the World Cup, twenty-year-old Daniele is committed for compulsory psychiatric treatment after a violent outburst of rage. For a week he shares a room on the ward with five men on the margins of the world, disturbing and tender, rambling yet wise, overwhelmed by life just like him: Madonnina with his restless eyes, Giorgio with the black-and-white photo of his mother, Gianluca's fierce joy, Mario and his revived little bird, and Alessandro, locked in silence. Under the stifling heat, questioned by indifferent doctors and handled by frightened nurses, they discover a brotherhood and a need for one another they have never known.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 193 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1994
- First published
- 2020 by Mondadori
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788804721987 (original)
9781609458065 (Europa Editions, United States)
- More
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