{"product_id":"el-verano-que-nos-queda-dos-bigotes","title":"El verano que nos queda (DOS BIGOTES)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn absorbing novel acclaimed by critics in Italy in which \"the protagonists' gender escapes labeling in the name of a universal concept of love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiulia and Cristi meet as children in the 1990s during the summers they spend in a small town in the Las Marcas region. Giulia, determined and rational, is fascinated by Cristi, fragile and wild, who inspires something more intense and passionate than friendship. Cristi is also attracted to Giulia, but her eyes constantly seek Mattia, a boy who seems to understand her free nature on a deeper level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a series of summers marked by jealousy and games by the river, the three, on the threshold of adolescence, part ways. Ten years later, Giulia and Cristi reunite in Bologna, and the love they never forgot erupts. But once again, to disrupt their balance, Mattia reappears. From that moment, their passionate lives will be forever intertwined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCristi, who knows how to make Giulia love her desperately and in turn loves without rules, remains the irresistible vertex of the triangle. A story of absolute love that transcends gender, endures abandonment, and in the end, when it burns, leaves a special ash from which love alone can be reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this surprising debut and a captivating, original narrative, Giulia Baldelli draws us into the obsession of a love and establishes herself as a new Italian voice that needs to be discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWHAT THE CRITICS SAY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It seeps under the skin and makes us reflect on who we have been, what remains, and what we had to let go of to survive.\" Marie Claire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful and extraordinary story about the essential truth of passion.\" Elle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A novel that recalls Jules and Jim, where the protagonists' gender escapes any label in the name of a universal concept of love.\" Io Donna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Three is the perfect number for a novel about fluid love and, why not, about modern relationships. The search for a destructive happiness, which Baldelli narrates with perfect style, moves us with its expressive power.\" La Repubblica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story with clear writing, continuous twists, and varying rhythms, thanks also to a rich world revolving around the three protagonists and many other characters, none of whom is superfluous.\" Il Corriere della Sera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story of total, desperate love. El verano que nos queda by Giulia Baldelli is a constantly moving triangle.\" Il Libraio.it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Love, even the most stubborn and passionate, is painful, must face trials, and be able to survive life itself (...). The frankness and purity with which Giulia Baldelli describes feelings are disturbing.\" Libreriamo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A story always clear, built on obsessions and commitments. If I had to choose two words to describe El verano que nos queda, I would choose these: obsession and commitment.\" Today Libri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book to fall in love with, above all, with people, with souls.\" Donna Moderna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With this surprising debut, Giulia Baldelli takes us back to the nineties, where everything (or almost everything) had a different taste, color, and smell.\" Il Foglio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Baldelli is very skilled in constructing stories and situations (...). She employs concise writing, free of embellishments, always focused on the narrated facts and with a strong effect of realism, something surprising in a first novel.\" Il Manifesto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stylistically mature novel that tells a reckless and moving love story of great significance.\" Giornale di Brescia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editorial Dos Bigotes SL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57188947329368,"sku":"9788412653519","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788412653519.jpg?v=1777241253","url":"https:\/\/www.plasticbooks.uk\/en\/products\/el-verano-que-nos-queda-dos-bigotes","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}