City

The novel "City" is the most important and famous work written by Alessandro Baricco in the novel, and it is one of the most important works in contemporary Italian literature, so much so that the famous critic Alfred Hekeling, in his discussion of the liveliness of the novel's style and its renewal, compared it to "the style of Julian Barnes, or Douglas Adams, or even Umberto Eco." And indeed, as he said: reading the novel "City" in Italy has become "like a sacred ritual." "City" is a novel with three intertwined stories, without barriers or divisions, flowing like three parallel rivers, from which other stories and many characters branch out. The main story is the story of Gold and his housekeeper, Chetty Shell. Gold is a genius child abandoned by his parents, living with Chetty Shell and two imaginary friends, one a giant who cannot fit in a car, and the other a mute "who speaks." From Gold's imagination flows the story of the boxer Lerry Gorman and his trainer Mondini, a story that is born and develops only when Gold is sitting on the toilet. As for Chetty Shell's imagination, the Western story in the American West flows, telling the story of a city torn apart by the wind, where the fate of people and their destinies are lost in its dust.