The book explores the tension between official history and personal memory, the inevitable proximity of death, and the search for closure.
The novel is set in 1973 , during a real-world cholera outbreak in Naples that has the city under partial lockdown. Tren a Maratea - Vicenç Villatoro i Lamolla - h...
The story follows , an elderly man who returns to his hometown of Maratea in southern Italy after 30 years in exile. He had originally left the village the day after the victory of World War II, having fought with the partisans . Key Narrative Elements: The book explores the tension between official history