Nothing Like Before

“It’s a strange time to be young, don’t let loneliness make you feel like a failure.”

Edoardo is 25, was born and raised in a small provincial town, and after graduating moved to a big city to work in a prestigious company. However, every Friday evening, without exception, he takes the train and returns to his hometown for the weekend, where he always visits the same people: the butcher, his secondary school teacher, his parents. On one of these weekends, he runs into Rebecca, his childhood friend who is losing her mother to a bad tumour, and together they will face a path that will force them to accept that the future can’t be avoided, and that however frightening it may be, it must be lived. Something unimaginable, however, disrupts their lives, filling them with a creeping dread. Their darkest and most painful thoughts will take the form of a sinister and provocative being, that will try to drag them to a place dominated by disillusionment.

• A novel that deals with loneliness, disillusionment, generational conflict, distrust towards an increasingly opaque and unsettling future, at a time when these themes become increasingly present among young and very young people.

• A contemporary story that photographs our time with references to pop culture, music and the world of comics.

• Tim Burton’s sense of inadequacy and the weight of Berserk’s destiny intertwine in Edoardo and Rebecca’s stories.