IL CONTINENTE BIANCO

A novel that delves into the secrets of evil. The new powerful novel by the acclaimed author of Madrigale senza suono (Premio Campiello 2019).

A story about the power, at times direful, that we have over others and an extraordinary portrait of a group of people - and perhaps a country - dancing on the abyss. At twenty-five years old, Marcello Croce is as handsome as a God and is convinced that the only way to survive the world is through exerting hatred in a calm and rational manner. He is the head of an extreme right-wing movement that includes fighters, fanatics, but also theorists and unusual figures with almost metaphysical traits - all convinced that life is war. With the complicity of certain political representatives and the compliance of the public opinion, Croce pursues his idea of neo-fascist subversion. At the same time, he dates Silvia, a wealthy middle-class woman with whom Croce establishes a dangerous power game that will lead them to perdition. The Narrator who guides us through the story is unexplicably attracted by Marcello: he is eager to know what his next moves are and what ignites the fire of those who wants to pursue such a violent idea of the world. Il continente bianco explores the obsessive relationship between Silvia and Marcello as the powerful metaphor of the fascination these kind of ideas have exerted, and exert, on the Italian bourgeoisie. The story of Silvia and her fall has already been told in the splendid but unfinished novel that Goffredo Parise wrote in the 1970s "L'odore del sangue." Andrea Tarabbia was born in 1978. He undertook Russian studies and is lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Bergamo. In October 2016 he won the "Premio Letterario Alessandro Manzoni - città di Lecco" with Il Giardino delle mosche, which was also awarded with the 54th Selezione Premio Campiello. His latest novel Madrigale senza suono won the Premio Campiello in 2019. In 2012 he edited and translated Michail Bulgakov's Diaboliad (Voland).