
- Publisher
- Einaudi
- First published
- 2025
- Length
- ≈ 160 pages
- Reading time
- 4–6 hours
- ISBN
- 9788806271978
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
After their final exams, the former pupils of one class at a Milan high school make a pact meant to bind them for life. They agree to meet for dinner every year, turning the passage of time into a kind of game based on the gradual disappearance of the participants, with a cash prize at stake. The annual dinners become the occasions on which old rivalries, grudges, ambitions and failures resurface, while death becomes a constant presence in the group. The story follows the characters across the decades.
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