seems strange that a once-famous author, we talk so little now, except to remind the same novel, The liberal women of Magliano. Think that was thanks to him created a big literary prize, the Prix Tobino memo and that his works were taken from various films.
In particular, however, I would like to dwell on this short novel whose reading I was pleasantly surprised although I happened to his hands almost by accident.
The action takes place, like many of his novels, in Tuscany and is the story of a group of guys who get together and start to fight against the fascists, out of love for their city (Medusa, easily identifiable with Viareggio , his hometown). With the same theme in the literature we can find Italian Fenoglio, Calvin, and many others, but if I remember correctly no one ever advised or appointed to school when I was a kid and retrospective seems a mistake. It 'easy to read, not rhetorical, dry, ideal for a teenager, but instead it read during the lazy summer holidays, is no longer re-printed, eliminating the root problem.
