Three stories present three portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life. Boxing takes us into the world of gyms, a world of bodies and nerves stretched to the limit, of sacrifice and challenge. Two young men confront each other in the fight of their lives: one of them is well-to-do, a model student whose his skills have never been put to the test; the other, although poor and deaf, is stubborn, determined, and wins fights easily. Now they face the ultimate test—the encounter on which not only their present but also their future depends. Horses presents the wide open spaces of the countryside. Here, two brothers, both given horses by their father, confront each other sensing that two different destinies are opening up for them. The Monkey is about the fragility of identity, the desire to escape it and disappear. When Nico discovers that his boyhood friend Piero has made the sudden, shocking decision to become a monkey, he is led to question the basis on which he has lived his own life.

Fists

Literature & Fiction

Grossi, Pietro

Contemporary

Pushkin Pr Ltd

Winner of the 2010 Campiello Europa Prize. "The greatest addition to Italian literature for a very long time."—Il Domenicale Three stories, three portraits of young men learning the realities of adult life. Characters, bound together by fate, struggle to find meaning in human existence.

Literary

Pushkin Press

Dino is a placid, unambitious man. Living in a small provincial town, his only passion is billiards—he spends his evenings honing his technique. One day, however, Dino’s quiet life is interrupted—his wife falls pregnant. This is the first in a series of events that shake him from his slumber and force Dino to test himself for the first time.

The Break

Dino is a placid, unambitious man. Living in a small provincial town, he and his wife spend their time planning journeys to faraway places - journeys they never take. Dino's only passion is billiards, and he spends his evenings in the local billiards hall honing his technique. One day, however, Dino's quiet life is interrupted - his wife falls pregnant. This the first in a series of events that shake him from his slumber and force Dino to test himself for the first time. As in his widely praised Fists, Pietro Grossi's stripped-down prose brings out the epic human drama in a tale of everyday life.

It was a memorable summer: with the broken-down old road that suddenly turned into a strip of gleaming asphalt, and the abandoned motorbike the three boys found as a rusty heap and built into a racer. But it was also more than that, more than a distraction from the boredom of their small Tuscan town, than a few weeks of racing and dodging the attentions of the local Marshal. For Jacopo and his two friends, it began their journeys out into the world, separated by thousands of miles, steered by something other than fate-helped on their way, and controlled... Tautly written and deeply moving, Enchantment is more than a simple coming-of-age story, it is a powerful, original novel from an important, compelling new author.

Enchantment

‘Fists’, ‘Horses’ and ‘The Monkey’: three powerful coming-of-age stories about boys confronting reality, and fighting to stay alive in a man’s world. In ‘Fists’, a teenage amateur boxer steps into the ring for the first time, and finds himself in a face-off with Life in all its muscular force; in ‘Horses’, two brothers embark on their first forays into adulthood, each learning to play a man’s game in his own painful way; and in ‘The Monkey’, a young man realizes that in order to stay sane and survive in this world, we have to sacrifice our childhood dreams. Told in a spare and powerful voice reminiscent of Hemingway and Salinger, Grossi’s stories explore the rite of passage each of us faces in our youth – and what it means to be a man in our time.

L'uomo nell'armadio (Italian Edition)

Mondadori

PIETRO GROSSI, ORRORE - PIETRO

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Feltrinelli

L'acchito (Italian Edition)

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Fists

Fists

The Break

The Break

Enchantment

Fists

L'uomo nell'armadio (Italian Edition)

PIETRO GROSSI, ORRORE - PIETRO

L'acchito (Italian Edition)