Andrea De Carlo (born 1952) is one of the most prominent representatives of modern Italian literature, the author of about twenty books. His novels are distinguished by their clarity of structure, cinematic quality (in his youth, De Carlo assisted Fellini on the filming of “And the Ship Goes Away”), unpredictability of details and plot twists. “About the Three of Us” is a novel about love (but not a love novel!), about friendship (such , which is sometimes more important than love), about creativity and freedom. The characters are looking for themselves, their relationships are changing, their roles in life are changing, they themselves are changing - and time is changing with them. With each new turn of the plot, the heroes return to their native Milan, which so reminds us of modern Moscow...