But you will do

In the author's words: Arielyana, "Fifty houses of stones and two hundred inhabitants," is the town where Pietro and Nina spend their holiday with their grandparents, in a summer they lost their mother at its beginning. A holiday unlike any before, where the flood that is no longer a flood, the abandoned palace, the Norman tower, and the arrogance of Uncle Rocco, the reckless landowner who condemned the town to poverty and backwardness. Then the discovery of a family of migrants hiding inside the tower, and the division of the locals between those rejecting them and those angry at their mysterious presence among them, but that is what will ignite the spark of change and plant the seeds of hope in the south. Amidst the merging of dreams with new tensions, Pietro moves from childhood to adolescence, and his voice tells us how to overcome death, betrayal, and injustice, and how that stage overflows with tenderness and joy despite all the pain. Through this spontaneous, sarcastic, and wise voice, Cattocila writes a powerful and effective novel, a novel full of shadows and lights, tragedy and laughter, but simple like all things that delve into depths. Number of pages: 239 pages