The novel of the Sicilian writer extracts from a private history of the great themes of life, and asks them with a delicacy, a self-deprecating modesty and heartfelt tenderness that earned him the player participation and the approval of the international jury of Italianists. "The book by Roberto Alajmo proves once again that literature is un'autoterapia that can fail even useful to others, when able to face opened its heart diseases. After forty years, the writer deals with the trauma that has marked his life, her mother's suicide