May 31st, 1972: The Fragile Architecture of Chance

Three cradles, three cities, one single name. What truly determines who we become?May 31, 1972, is an ordinary Wednesday, a day without memorable historical events. Yet, at the exact same moment in three different corners of Italy, three babies are born sharing the same name and surname: Franco Ferrante.Pierenrico Gottero leads us on a magnetic journey through three lives born under the same sign but destined for irreconcilable trajectories, shaped by the "fragile architecture of chance."- In Turin, amidst the clatter of trams and the dust of factories, grows a Franco marked by distrust and the necessity of surviving in a world that gives nothing for free.- In Treviso, in a muffled living room smelling of privilege and clean expectations, another Franco moves through a golden void, where every fulfilled desire loses its flavor the moment it is touched.- In Pisa, in the silence of a house filled with books and polite anxieties, the third Franco seeks a shield against the unexpected and the fear of living through logic and study.Through an intense and psychologically profound narrative, the author explores the "creaks of reality"-those minute shifts, those seconds of being early or late that can alter the entire course of a life. The stories of the three Francos unfold as parallel lines until a twist of fate brings them to touch, revealing a naked truth: it would take almost nothing-a different mother or an uninherited fear-for each to live the life of the other."May 31, 1972" is not just a novel about the search for identity, but a poetic and ruthless investigation into the power of coincidence. It is a book dedicated to those who have lived "crooked lives," to those who had the courage to change their path, and to all of us who, at least once, have felt like the point of discontinuity in the universe.A work that challenges the very idea of destiny and invites us to view our lives as a cosmic kaleidoscope, where a single millimeter can change everything.

Pagina's: 169, Paperback, Independently published