Last summer in the city
(Book)

Originally published in Italian in 2016 Bompiani / Rizzoli Libri S.p.A., Italy, as L'ultima Estate in Città.

In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At thirty, hes still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich-but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever. Rather than toil and spin, isnt it better to submit to the alienation of the Eternal City, Rome, sometimes a cruel and indifferent mistress, sometimes sweet and sublime? There can be no half measures with her, either shes the love of your life or you have to leave her.