GLI SBAFATORI

The story of a generation that tries to gate-crash the collective banquet. And eat for free.

Rosa is young foodblogger, she’s good fun and clumsy. Guidobaldo is a mature and conceited food critic. And both live above their means.
One day they meet at a champagne vertical tasting and in the suite of a Venetian grand hotel passion flares between them – a passion grounded on lies and rivalry. Travel, dinners, holidays – it’s a life dreams are made of. Until...

A story of love and sex set against the background of the world of food. The picture that emerges of journalists, PRs chefs, gourmets, with their splendours, falsities, and perversions, is derisive and hardly glittering. The author adds at the end of the book the protagonist’s irresistible (existentialist) recipes.

Camilla Baresani, born in 1961 in Bresica. She is a journalist and writer, born in Brescia. She wrote many novels Il plagio (Mondadori 2000), Sbadatamente ho fatto l’amore (Mondadori 2002), L’imperfezione dell’amore, (Bompiani 2005, Montblanc Prize), Un’estate fa (Bompiani 2010, Hemingway Prize and Selezione Rapallo Priize), Il sale rosa dell’Himalaya, (Bompiani 2014, the Città di Como international prize for literature, the Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize, the Città di Vigevano Prize). She writes for “Sette”, “Io Donna”, “Style” and “IL” (supplement of “Il Sole 24 ore”). She teaches creative writing the master degree in journalism held at IULM.