Black September
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Black September
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Sandro Veronesi
About this listen
Black September tells the story of the blossoming of a twelve-year-old boy, Gigio Bellandi, during a summer in Versilia, Tuscany, in 1972: his discovery of music, reading, restlessness, desire, love - and then the unthinkable, lightning-fast interruption of it all. It reconstructs with vivid precision the images, smells, colours, and sounds that animated that lost season, and the irreversible event that overturns it. But this is also a novel about the evocative power of words and the seductive power of language, as it tells the story of an explosion of a pure and surprising talent, also destined to last forever: that of literature and translation.
©2026 La nave di Teseo editore, Milano 2024 (P)2026 Hachette Book Group AudioCritic Reviews
'Magnificent... Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here' - Guardian
'Veronesi truly knows and loves all matters of the heart' - Ian McEwan
'Inventive, bold, unexpected' - Sunday Times
'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness' - Financial Times
'Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core' - Jhumpa Lahiri
'Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders' - Ian McEwan
'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness' - Financial Times