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General Fiction

Non aspettare la notte

(Don’t Wait For the Night)

Casa Editrice Longanesi&C., September 2016, pp.384

Angelica was disfigured in an accident. Tommaso is destined to go blind.
Two fragile souls, two wounded people. A love story that goes against everyone and everything.

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Angelica, a roman student reading Law, is offered the chance to spend her summer holidays in her grandfather’s magnificent villa in the countryside, and she is thrilled. Thrilled because her goal is to hide from the rest of the world: aged 20, Angelica is scarred for life not only in her soul, but on the rest of her body too, after a car accident during which she lost her mother.
Tommaso is able to find her however; after a fortuitous meeting, which he can’t seem to forget, he decides to take her photographs with his Polaroid. This is the only tool that enables him to see the world clearly, since a degenerative illness affecting his eyes is plunging him into darkness.
In those photos, Angelica is beautiful, and bears no scars: Tommaso falls in love with her and thanks to his contagious cheerfulness he succeeds in overcoming her resistance and breaking down her barriers.
But just when it seems happiness is within their reach, a dark night envelops them, pushes them apart and triggers a series of painful events from which no one will come out unscathed. Only those who can find their way in the dark.

Casa Editrice Longanesi&C., September 2016, pp.384

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Valentina D'Urbano

Valentina D’Urbano was born in Rome in 1985, where she now lives and works as a children’s illustrator. Her first novel, Il rumore dei tuoi passi (The sound of your steps) published in 2012 by Longanesi was a true literary success, managing to sell more than 100,000 copies. All her following novels have been acclaimed by critics and won numerous important literary prizes.

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