THE RED HORSE

• first published in 1983
• 1080 pp
• 36th Italian edition so far

A great choral story and an unrepeatable literary case.
More than 1000 pages of heart-wrenching and riveting stories of fictional characters taken from real-life events and the author’s background and memories, from the 40s to the 70s, set in Northern Italy around and in Milan and on the Russian front of the II World War.

Translated into 9 languages, still in print in Italy, selling millions of copies so far.
• In France: Noir sur Blanc, Paris, Lausanne – Age d’Homme.
• In English for USA: University of Missouri Press, Ignatius Press.
• In Spanish for Spain: Rialp Ediciones

Ask for other languages. Translation rights for all languages and English language foreign rights available.

Synopsis

The protagonists are a young man coming to age and his Italian family, whose destinies merge with the most lacerating dramas of 1900. From the mid-1930s to the 1970s the story runs directly through the tragedy of World War II. From the Lombard territory around Milano to the frozen landscapes of the Russian Campaign, to the horrors of the Italian and European civil war, to the uncertainties of the first post-war period in Europe in 1946: with a great desire for redemption and reconstruction by the younger generations, up to the violence and ideologies of the 1970s in Italy and Europe. Captured by a dense plot, the Reader completes, from page to page, the extraordinary experience offered by great literature: he rejoices, suffers, laughs, cries, grows, together with the protagonists of the novel and, at the same time, realizes that he becomes more aware of himself, more aware of the mystery of life and the meaning of the world. The human person in front of destiny and history with dignity and awareness.