At long last, the Italian bestseller White as Milk, Red as Blood, is available in
English as White as Silence, Red as Song.
D'Avenia's International bestseller has been called Italy's The Fault in Our Stars.
Leo is an ordinary sixteen-year-old: he loves hanging out with his friends, playing
soccer, and zipping around on his motorbike. The time he has to spend at school is a
drag, and his teachers are "a protected species that you hope will become extinct," so
when a new history and philosophy teacher arrives, Leo greets him with his usual
antipathy. But this young man turns out to be different. His eyes sparkle when he
talks, and he encourages his students to live passionately and follow their dreams.
Leo now feels like a lion, as his name suggests, but there is still one thing that terrifies
him: the color white. White is absence; everything related to deprivation and loss in his
life is white. Red, on the other hand, is the color of love, passion, and blood; red is the
color of Beatrice's hair. Leo's dream is a girl named Beatrice, the prettiest in school.
Beatrice is irresistible-one look from her is enough to make Leo forget about everything
else.
There is, however, a female presence much closer to Leo, which he finds harder to see
because she's right under his nose: the ever-dependable and serene Silvia. When he
discovers that Beatrice has leukemia and that her disease is related to the white that
scares him so much, Leo is forced to search within himself, to bleed and to be reborn.
In the process, he comes to understand that dreams must never die, and he finds the
strength to believe in something bigger than himself.
White as Silence, Red as Song is not only a coming-of-age story and the narrative of a
school year, but it is also a bold novel that, through Leo's monologue-at times
easygoing and full of verve, at times more intimate and anguished-depicts what
happens when suffering and shock burst into the world of a teenager, and the world of
adults is rendered speechless.
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