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Literary Fiction

La fine del mondo

(The End of the World)

Ponte alle Grazie, February 2026, pp.356

One of the most original and intellectually audacious voices in contemporary Italian fiction.

From his window, a man bears witness to the end of the world.
A darkly ironic and profoundly moving novel that slips between genres, fusing philosophical brilliance with a disarming, unexpected tenderness.

In a newly purchased apartment in a quiet middle-class development — perfect for dying — a retired man spends his days thinking. From here, catastrophe feels distant, almost abstract; even a coup would likely go unnoticed. Sheltered by the reassuring stillness of his surroundings, he speaks to himself: he remembers, despises, regrets, dreams, fears. He sifts through the past, through the history in which he is entangled, through the little future he senses remains to him.

His fantasies, memories, and obsessions revolve around the end of a world and of a life, gradually shaping a total reading of our era — memorable for its intensity, humor, lucidity, cruelty, and stylistic force.

Ponte alle Grazie, February 2026, pp.356

  • “Extremely powerful and rich, with unprecedented ferocity… heir to the tormented heroes of Céline, Malcolm Lowry, and Don De Lillo.”

    La Repubblica

  • “With his compelling writing, he manages to capture, in the filigree of an individual’s obsessions, the historical trauma of that tangle we call Italy.”

    Andrea Cortellessa, Tuttolibri - La Stampa

  • “Often unbeatable. A modern classic. A new Odyssey.”

    El País

  • “Pecoraro is the author of what could be described as The Great Italian Novel.”

    Il Venerdì di Repubblica

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Francesco Pecoraro

Francesco Pecoraro (1945) was born in Rome, where he still lives. He has published a collection of short stories and a poetry collection. Ponte alle Grazie published his first novel, La vita in tempo di pace (Life in Peacetime, 2013), a resounding success that sold 30,000 copies, third runner-up in the Strega Prize, winner of the Viareggio Prize, the Mondello Prize, and finalist for the Volponi Prize and sold worldwide. In 2019 he wrote Lo stradone (The Road) and in 2021 the collection of 21 stories Camere e stanze (Rooms and Bedrooms). La fine del mondo (The End of the World, 2026) is his latest novel.

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