The discovery of dawn
By: Walter Veltroni.
Publisher: Rizzoli Ex Libris; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780847831098
Subjects: Parent and child -- Italy -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Italy -- Fiction; Family -- Italy -- Fiction; Down syndrome -- Patients -- Care -- Italy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: La Scoperta Dell'alba
Description: Story about a man who reclaims his past. Giovanni Astengo keeps his life at arm's length: the father of a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome, Stella, and a forlorn, world-weary 20-year-old, Lorenzo, Giovanni is also still searching for his own lost father, who vanished during a period of political terrorism in 1977. Revisiting the country house his parents used to frequent, Giovanni discovers there that he can call his 13-year-old self (on the eve of his father's disappearance, no less) by dialing his old phone number. Over the phone, Giovanni tries to change the future by having his younger self look for clues about his father's disappearance. There are fascinating intellectual tenets coursing through Veltroni's work, and the bond that forms between the two Giovannis is beautifully realized, as is the clarity that the older Giovanni finally achieves.
Notes: Translation of: La Scoperta Dell'alba

Translated from the Italian.