Eligio and the Days of the Wheel
Guido Sgardoli
The Missing Piece
Coming of age
We’re all missing something. Something we can never find even though we keep on searching.
Fourteen-year-old Victor misses his brother Fred, who is unconscious at the hospital after a mysterious accident.
Since he can’t make up for this absence any other way, Victor looks for his brother in the traces that he left behind: Fred’s four best friends, his incomplete book and comic collections, role-playing games and even a dark matter anomaly detected by their parents (both physicists). But did he ever really know his brother?
In exploring that beloved figure, Victor also learns something about himself.
- Thrills, action, role-playing games but also a story of loss, resilience, hope, and, above all, the power of imagination.
- A labyrinth of emotions through well-characterised characters.
Publisher:
Il Castoro
Target:
Young adult
Year:
2023
Author
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica, and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.
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