The heart equation
Growing, even when we're old, means going beyond our comforting habits and look into one's heart, as in L’equazione del cuore, Maurizio de Giovanni's latest book published by Mondadori. This is no crime fiction like the inspector Ricciardi, The bastards of Pizzofalcone or investigators Sara and Mina Settembre. Rather, this is an adventure in the undiscovered lands of a relationship between a lonely, elderly maths professor and a child, Francesco nicknamed Checco, who's an orphan and in a coma after the road accident in which his parents died. Massimo De Gaudio leaves his sunny island where he's spending quiet days studying and fishing and runs to a freezing city in the Po Valley to deal with grief and crises. He finds a world of customs and interests he's not used to. He discovers the dark sides of his daughter's life and the poignant tenderness of being a grandfather. Sorrow and hope. An unexpected world that changes you inside. An unmissable read.
L’equazione del cuore (The heart equation)
Maurizio De Giovanni
Mondadori, 2021