PARADISO

Rome, on the coast of Lazio, a small group of lovable, eccentric old freaks is trying to survive between the arrival of a famous influencer and a suspicious death.

A sophisticated comédie de moeurs, the Balzacian portrait of a microcosm, of a place and its inhabitants, of two cities. It's brilliant and biting to better tell the inevitability of destinies and illusions and reminds of the sharp realism of Truman Capote or the fatalist and tender irony of Dino Risi in Il sorpasso or Sorrentino in La grande bellezza. Michele Masneri is an Italian writer and journalist. He worked in Hamburg and Paris in international organizations. He currently collaborates with Il Foglio, IlSole24Ore and Rivista Studio. In 2014 he published Addio, Monti (Minimum Fax), his debut in fiction. For Adelphi he published the narrative reportage Steve Jobs non abita più qui (2020). Paradiso is his second novel.