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Francesco Dimitri Hi Diana,

it's an important question. To be honest, I am not sure I agree with your reading of the story. In a book told from the POV of three ineffect…moreHi Diana,

it's an important question. To be honest, I am not sure I agree with your reading of the story. In a book told from the POV of three ineffectual, immature, men, some of the female characters are the people who have it together; the ones who act as grown-ups. Anna, Elena, even Concetta, are all way more mature than 'the boys'.

Only one female character is mad - but she is not mad in any nice, funny way; she is a troubled person who deserves far more respect and compassion than she receives. She is a victim, yes; but, to make one example, Fabio's father, old, lonely, and with dementia, is as much of a victim as she is, and he is male.

Besides, when you say that some characters are 'morally loose', you are defining your own moral values rather than theirs. Though I have the utmost respect for your morals, I guess we can agree that morals are rarely absolute; what looks morally loose to you might seem just about right to me (and to my wife, a firm, active feminist, who read the book carefully and helped me with it).

Then again, no story is everybody's jam; and if mine made you feel belittled, I hope what you read next, whatever that might be, will make you feel twice powerful :)(less)

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Hi! How did you learn to write in a language that isn't your native one? Do you feel that your style has changed from one language to the other?

Francesco Dimitri Hi Edera! I learnt by reading, writing, and engaging with real people in the real world, mostly. And I am not sure about my style per se, but definite…moreHi Edera! I learnt by reading, writing, and engaging with real people in the real world, mostly. And I am not sure about my style per se, but definitely my psychology changes when I change language - I am a slightly different person when I think in Italian than I am when I think in English...(less)

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	La ragazza dei miei sogni by Francesco Dimitri (Goodreads Author), Valerio Evangelisti (Introduzione) 3.98 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutting edge, Vol. 1 by Francesco Dimitri (Goodreads Author) (Sceneggiatura, dialoghi italiani), Mario Alberti (Illustrator), Gianluca Pini (Lettering) 3.49 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“you can lie to everybody but yourself, because when you lie to yourself, all you do is train yourself to believe in lies, which makes it easier for your opponents to feed you theirs”
― Francesco Dimitri, The Book of Hidden Things

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“When you are young, you are immense—then you shrink. Everything is possible at five, but what is left for you at forty? With every choice you make you renounce all the choices you could have made instead, and so you become smaller and smaller, each choice consuming you a little, burning your possibilities, until nothing is left of you. Death is a progressive shrinking that brings you from vastness to nothingness”
― Francesco Dimitri, The Book of Hidden Things

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“Pensavamo di essere al sicuro. Pensavamo di essere immortali. Eravamo molto giovani e non sapevamo molte cose.”
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