An Italian Obsession

Roberto never really got over the crush he had on Alessandra in school and when, years later, they meet again and fall in love, tragedy strikes and all seems lost. After a long separation Roberto finally reconnects with Alex and has a chance to win her back, but a dark secret from his past threatens to come back to haunt him. With the police, who have taken a belated interest in events of the past, and Roberto’s romantic relation with Alex’s roommate, which complicates everything, will he be able to keep his life from taking another bad turn?

This coming-of-age novel is set in postwar Europe, with social realism that will transport you back to the 1970’s. That was a time when young people had a devil-may-care attitude and faced the same problems youth of the current generation does – sex, drugs, and same sex set-up.