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From internationally best-selling writer Niccolò Ammaniti, comes a humorous, heartbreaking, stomach-punch of the book, planning an unlikely coalition between two outsiders hits available one family’s secrets.Lorenzo Cumi is just a fourteen-year-old misfit how. He informs them he’s been asked on an unique skiing holiday with all the popular kids, to quell the nervousness of his worried, socially aware parents. On the day of the journey, Lorenzo needs before they get to the stop, requiring if he turns up followed closely by his mother that his standing is likely to be sacrificed that he is dropped by his mother down. Reluctantly, she believes, and the moment she's properly from the area, he spins around and makes his long ago to his community, to place his actual plan in-motion: for just one fortunate week, Lorenzo will retire to some neglected cellar in his family’s condo building, where he'll reside in great seclusion, maintaining the grown-up world at bay.But when his estranged half sister, Olivia, appears in the cellar suddenly, his idyll is broken, and both become locked in a struggle of wills—forced to face the devils they're each struggling to flee.