Michele Mari is a philologist with a deep immersion in science fiction and comics. His complex literary style echoes masters like Carlo Emilio Gadda and Giorgio Manganelli, as well as Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Beyond his narrative works, he has also produced poetry and significant critical and essayistic contributions. His scholarship often delves into 18th and 19th-century Italian literature and comparative studies of fantastical literature. Mari's writing offers a unique perspective on culture and letters, appealing to readers seeking depth and erudition.
A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgangers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.
Childhood obsessions - from games to comic books - come back to haunt the present in hilarious and unsettling ways in a first translation of the popular and acclaimed Mari.