*有英文书稿
**已经售出五国版权、销售超过25,000册
**近年来最好的当代意大利文学作品
**晚邮报赞誉为「杰作」
 
好长一段时间，Ivo Brandani一直过着安稳平和的生活，然而他真正「纷扰」的故事始于2015年5月29日，当时他已经是一位六十九岁的工程师，对于生活不抱任何幻想并开始失望。他还没退休，正开始参与一项秘密、惊人的跨国公司计划。这是一项利用合成材料再造红海珊瑚礁的计划，因为环境污染正扼杀真正珊瑚的生存。
 
自他从埃及回来后，就处于一种梦幻般的幻觉状态，他重新审视了中产阶级存在的不同阶段，从现在到过去：二十一世纪初的深层颓废，二十世纪末的官僚虚伪及六零年代学生抗争的年代，二次大战后出现的爱、性、不知节制的野蛮世界，而当时他自己还只是个小孩子，刚历经第一次的噩梦。
 
这本书诉说意大利的历史故事，并从头脑清晰、非正统主角的眼光探讨意大利人民及欧洲中产阶级的矛盾，更深层探讨意大利人民的弱点、愿望、热情。
*各方媒体好评不断*
“Masterpiece” Il Corriere della Sera (意大利最著名的全国性报纸─晚邮报)
 
“Pecoraro is a war writer. A war that ended a long time ago, but that has continued during the following “sixty years of peace” and still continues today, […] “in the hell of human doings.” La Repubblica (意大利著名报纸)
 
“A great novel in every sense. Perhaps it could be said to be the novel of Italy today, just as La Dolce Vita was the film of Italy back in the day.” Corrado Augias, Il Venerdì di Repubblica
 
“An intellectual novel, certainly. But it's also a coming-of-age story, at times ruthless and at times picaresque, frequently shot through with icy humour…the most intense chapter, which recalls the experience of childhood with an exactitude and a rejection of embellishment which approach the lucidity of Leopardi.” Alessandro Zaccuri, Avvenire
 
“Extremely powerful and rich…A novel of unusual ferocity and strength…In a politically correct age of tame conventions, this dark novel hits you like a stone shattering a pane of glass: desperate and terminal. It’s the heir apparent to the tormented heroes, of Céline… of Pasolini’s Petrolio, of Malcolm Lowry, DeLillo’s White Noise.” Andrea Bajani, La Repubblica  
 
“Francesco Pecoraro has written one of the best Italian novels of the season… Brings to mind an extremely high standard of writing: not so much that of Gadda (which he approaches at times) as that of Musil.” Filippo La Porta, Il Messaggero
 
“A rich, modernist, built-up, Célinesque novel […] Pecoraro’s novel recalls the best of Houellebecq, or Siti even more so.” Alias
 
 
关于作者：
Francesco Pecoraro 于1945年出生于罗马，自那时候生活于此。出版过短篇小说集the collection of short stories Dove credi di andare (The Place Where You Think You Are Going, Mondadori, 2007; Premio Napoli and Premio Berto)、诗集 the poetry collecion Primordio vertebrale (Vertebral Beginning, Ponte Sisto, 2012) 及 Questa e altre preistorie (This One and Other Prehistories, Le Lettere, 2008)，其中收录了他自己的部落格(Tash-blog)文章。