"The greatest addition to Italian literature for a very long time"
Il Dominicale
“Pietro Grossi has written three exemplary tales – three stories that you wished you had written yourself”
La Repubblica
“His passion for Hemingway, Faulkner and Philip Roth can be seen in this simple, precise and intense writing”
“His passion for Hemingway, Faulkner and Philip Roth can be seen in this simple, precise and intense writing”
Il Giornale
“An outstanding debut”
“An outstanding debut”
Giudizio Universale
“A perfect book”
“A perfect book”
Il Sole 24 Ore
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE BOOK
Three stories, three portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life.
Boxing takes us into the world of gyms, a world of bodies, of nerves stretched to the limit, of sacrifice and challenge. Two young men confront each other in the fight of their lives. One of them is well-to-do, a model student whose skills have never been put to the test. The other, although poor and deaf, is stubborn and determined . Now they face the ultimate test, the encounter on which not only their present, but their future depends.
Horses takes into the wide open spaces of the countryside. Here, two brothers, both given horses by their father, confront each other sensing that two different destinies are opening up for them. The Monkey, is about the fragility of identity, the desire to escape it and disappear. When Nico discovers that his boyhood friend Pietro has made the sudden, shocking decision to become a monkey, he is led to question the basis on which he has lived his own life.
In Fists, Pietro Grossi has written three epics of the everyday, in which his characters, bound
together by fate, struggle to find a meaning in human existence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pietro Grossi was born in Florence in 1978. He is a great admirer of Hemingway and JD Salinger, and has been writing since he was eight years old. Fists is his second novel, for which he won the Premio Cocito Monta d'Alba prize. He lives and works between Tuscany and Milan.
Translated by Howard Curtis (winner of the 2004 Society of Authors' John Florio Prize)
Cover illustration Alfons Alt
ISBN 978 1 906548 07 0
190 pages
