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Summary:
What do you do if one day you find a note in your backpack from someone who wants to be discovered? You start to look around in the classroom, to see who is watching you and studying you during school hours. And you fantasize: will it be her, will it be him? This is what happens to Viola and Michele. She starts, and Michele plays along, at first a bit cold, then more involved. And a hunt for the clue begins, the tickets become more numerous, longer and more frequent. And the desire to meet grows, impatient. The love story of Viola and Michele in a special edition with two unpublished letters, twenty years later. [Publisher’s website]
Edited by: Centro MeTRa - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Comment:
This short and unusual epistolary novel tells the story of the love story between a boy and a girl in the 9th grade. Through notes that gradually become real letters, the two young people express their desire to get to know each other, and, at the same time, to understand themselves, discovering that they share a passion for writing and for literature, but also feelings, fears, and hopes for the future. A fresh and fascinating story, which will perhaps make today’s young people think about the relationships of friendship and love back when there were no mobile phones, emoticons, etc., but only pencil and paper.