by Stefano Benni · Rinoceronte Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417388140
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Margherita Dolcevita is a young girl with a unique perspective on the world. With a slightly defective heart and a few extra pounds, she adds salt and irony to her natural intelligence. She affectionately observes the peculiarities of her family and gets lost in the large meadow surrounding her house, the last bastion of the countryside contaminated by the city and home to her invisible friend: the Dust Girl. But suddenly, a black glass cube surrounded by an aseptic synthetic garden appears in front of Margherita's house. They are the Del Bene family, bearers of the 'new' beatitude of consumption. Friends or corrupters? Margherita's family falls under a kind of dark spell, and a cloud of mysterious reprisals looms over those who resist the feast of well-being. Margherita suspects a diabolical plan and is willing to risk all her combativeness and imagination to discover in what abyss of culpable stupidity her small world, and perhaps the entire world, has fallen.
Stefano Benni was an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy.
