A beautifully crafted novel set in the late 1960s and 1970s Italy,
a tempestuous period that shaped the lives of generations to come
in many countries. What was it really like to be a teenager growing
up in Italy in the 1970s, during a time it has become all too easy
to file away under "years of lead," as the fathers' betrayed ideals
came face to face with the sons' and daughters' rebellions? What
was happening in schools, in assemblies, social centers, and
occupied factories as the postwar "economic miracle" was being
dismantled from within? What moved the foremost French
intellectuals of the time to sign an appeal against the repression
of the student and workers' movement in Italy? What did the bullets
and heroin bring to a halt, and where did they come from? How does
it feel when strategies of terror and police brutality become as
ordinary as a TV dinner and as eerie as the plots of the science
fiction novels you are plagiarizing to impress a girl? How are
metropolitan geographies alchemized in the muscles of a young body
crossing the shady lines between ages and sexes? Luca Rastello
raises these and other questions in an astonishing novel that
splices chunks of plot and historical reconstruction into the free
flow of memory and dream. Rain's Falling Up tracks the trajectory
of a generation while refusing to romanticize its protagonists or
resolve the tensions that powered its volatile energy.
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