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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
mental illness, Mencarelli chronicles seven days in the hospital as
he struggles to find a way out of the darkness. Daniele finds
unexpected companions in his fellow patients-men who, like him,
have felt the full brunt of life's pain. Together they will realise
the hidden strength and value of their common fragility and the
boundless empathy they feel towards others. By focusing on some of
the most marginalized people in our society, Mencarelli has written
a heart-breaking and unforgettable novel that challenges our notion
of normality and celebrates the salvific power of solidarity and
vulnerability.
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