A gloomy old man lives in a high mountain valley. Adelmo Farandola is used to being alone. Nothing can disturb the rhythm of his simple life. But the old man’s memory begins to fail him, and he finds himself captive of his own hallucinations. One day an old dog comes to him and pesters him with questions. And a foot appears from under the snow, ready to tell its story. Did he commit a crime that he forgot about?

Claudio Morandini created a phantasmagoric book about loneliness, life and death. This is a story about how a man tries to protect himself from the harsh world, but it still plunges his consciousness into chaos. Realistic descriptions are interspersed with dialogues filled with irony and grotesqueness. In an instant, the author switches registers so that the reader can decide for himself whether to believe this plausibly implausible story.Premio Procida-Isola di Arturo-Elsa Morante (2016)