General Fiction

Cosa è mai una firmetta

(It's Just a Little Signature)

Garzanti, October 2022, pp.272

Augusto leaves his village to go to the city, but he has not taken destiny into account: a wife determined to take possession of her aunt’s inheritance before her death.

1956. Twenty-five-year-old Augusto wants to leave Bellano, on Lake Como, where he lives with his elderly aunt, because he dreams of the city. He therefore tries to find work in a company in Lecco. His plan is, after his aunt dies, to sell her block of flats, evicting the tenants. Only Augusto has not taken destiny into account: he falls madly in love with the daughter of the company’s owner and marries her. She is not only sure that he must not sell the block of flats, but that he should not wait for his aunt’s death in order to have it. Instead, couldn’t the aunt be made to sign a quitclaim deed?

Garzanti, October 2022, pp.272

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Andrea Vitali

Andrea Vitali was born in 1956 on the eastern shore of Lake Como, where he still lives and works as a medical doctor. He started writing novels in 1989 with Il procuratore (The Prosecutor) and since then has kept up his prolific career by accumulating a series of literary prizes as being a finalist in the Strega prize. A success that’s lasted 20 years, made up exclusively of bestsellers, first places in the charts, prizes, and ecstatic reviews from the press and critics. More than 3,500,000 readers in Italy alone.

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