La vida en tiempo de paz

In only a day, the engineer Ivo Brandani (while he waits for a plane) tells us his entire life, recognizing a nearing end. In a backward narrative, Brandini reviews his life with the melancholic lucidity of his weaknesses and dreams. He also writes of a country submerged in abuse, hypocrisy, bureaucracy, and submission. He remembers the economic excess at the beginning of the century, the student protests of the 60s; from youthful days at the beach discovering love and sex, the barbaric postwar world, to his first steps of his childhood.

Francesco Pecoraro is an architect, urban planner, author of poems and articles, and wrote a book of stories Dove credi di andare. This is his only novel.