There are books that come into your life at the right time, when you need them most. So it was for me with La manutenzione dei sensi (The maintenance of the senses), written by Franco Faggiani: discovered by chance through social media and intrigued by the cover, I bought it on an impulse, without thinking too much. Nor purchase was more apt.
The story takes us into the lives of Leonardo Guerrieri, a fifty-year-old widower, and Martino, a temporary foster who is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. To escape from a monotonous, gray and apathetic life, Leonardo decides to leave Milan and move to the Piedmontese Alps, in the upper Val di Susa. Thanks to the mountains, to a new life in an isolated house in the middle of meadows and woods at high altitude, finally free from all the superfluous, both manage to find their own dimension, to feel more alive and to cultivate their passions and aspirations. (altro…)
