La ragazza dai capelli blu e altri racconti

Lisetta’s life seems marked by the endless repetition of certain family events, unfolding slowly on the outskirts of an unreachable city where everything, even the language, merely repeats worn-out formulas. One summer, however, a girl destined to stir things up stops right outside her alley. The title story of this collection is about desire, and the protagonist's stubborn search for an identity to call her own. That same feverish quest runs through all these stories—painful yet ironic—whose characters are caught in the delicate attempt to invent a life for themselves. “My desire is a patch of light.”