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At 27, Sheriff Abel Crow is already a legend. His amazing shooting skills, however, will not prevent him from rethinking the meaning of his existence at a critical moment. His girlfriend, who comes in and out of his life; his brothers, determined to save...

This book collects the articles that Alessandro Baricco has published in various journalistic media in the last twenty years. The title refers to the famous businessman PT Barnum, creator of the show based on "geeks" phenomena, since Baricco approaches contemporary culture as if it...

The Saint, Luca, Bobby and the narrator are four teenagers living in an indeterminate space and time, but who vaguely belong in a city in the North of Italy in the seventies. They belong to the middle class and are profoundly catholic. The appearance...

A scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family. The hand of the young woman in question has been promised to the scion of a noble family. She is to make her preparations for marriage at the family’s villa,...

Baricco reflects on the narratives and tries to unravel their mysteries. What is its final sense and its internal mechanics? The narrative has something of a hieroglyph and something of a map. Its alchemy emerges in the elusive and enigmatic borders between magic and...

Baricco reflects on the pandemic: beyond the health figures a mythical creature emerges that expresses fear and changes... Baricco understands the pandemic as something more than a health emergency: as a mythical creature, a collective construction (very real: there is no denial here) with...

Many years ago a frigate of the French navy was wrecked. 147 men tried to save themselves by climbing up onto a huge rubber raft and entrusting themselves to the sea. Many years ago, on the shores of an ocean, a man arrived at...

This is not a novel. It is not even a story. It is a history. It begins with a man who travels the world. The man’s name is Hervé Joncour. You could call it a love story, but if it was only this it...

Manuel Roca and his two sons live on an old isolated farm. One day, an old Mercedes with four men inside drive up the path leading to the house. As if he had always been waiting for this moment, Manuel Roca calls for his...

In this book the author traces the path of the digital insurrection. It is not a mere technological revolution, but the collapse of the paradigms of twentieth century. In just over three decades, computers, smartphones and other devices, have become essential and have changed...

Illustrated by Tommaso Vidus Rosin, The Game reworks and resizes the scope (and complexity) of the original essay's reflections, offering them to young readers through simple and ironic language. The Game is a territory created by us where we find ourselves every time we...

Quinnipak. An imaginary city with extraordinary characters living together, dedicated to build castles in the air that continuously collapse and leave behind a little sadness or rage. A novel created like a puzzle or the escape of characters, stories and digressions that come together...

Three Times at Dawn explores this question while leaving greater mysteries in its wake. A man and a woman -the same couple in each case- meet in a trio of hotels; first she is a seductress, he a traveling salesman; on another night she is...

Alessandro Baricco constructed a library and selected the fifty best texts read during the decade. A selection of books that came to his hands as recommended by a friend. And that is why the review of each of the texts gathered here is preceded...