Sweet dreams
Subtitle: a novel
By: Massimo Gramellini
Edition: First Atria Paperback edition
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781476718606; 9781476718613
Subjects: Fiction; FICTION / Coming of Age; FICTION / Family Life; FICTION / General
Work titles: Fai bei sogni
Description: "One snowy New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Massimo wakes up to a long, anguished cry and the disconcerting image of his father being supported by two strangers. Inexplicably, his mother has disappeared, leaving only a vague trail of perfume in his room and her dressing gown bundled up at the foot of his bed. Where has she gone? Will she ever come back? And will Massimo be able to say he's sorry after fighting with her the night before?   At turns poignant and funny, Sweet Dreams--already an international sensation--is both the story of a secret that has been kept hidden for forty years and the uplifting tale of a boy who, as he grows into an adult, has to gather the broken pieces of his life and realize that his mother was not the woman he thought she was"--