General Fiction

La gita in barchetta

(A Boat Trip)

Garzanti, October 2021, pp.272

From the great storyteller of the most authentic Italy: Three sisters, three destinies, while an entire village watches and, above all, talks.

Bellano, Lake Como, 1963. Annibale Carretta is a cobbler, who, back in the day, was a known harasser of women, but who now is ill and apparently dying. Many people have their eyes on his shop, in particular Rita Cerede, who wants to turn it into a sewing workshop for her mother, widowed very young. Rita has a limp, but it is now up to her to arrange the fate of her family and give a new life to her sisters: Lirina, whose husband drinks a little too much, and Vincenza, a beauty, but with no prospects. Something is about to happen and an ordinary boat trip on Lake Como will change the destinies of the three sisters.

Garzanti, October 2021, pp.272

  • “The Cechov of Bellano”.

    Antonio D'Orrico, La Lettura

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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