The mirror of change

Alvise is a writer who lives on a houseboat in the Venetian lagoon, suspended between isolation and listening. From that liquid threshold, he observes the world as if through a distorting mirror, where beauty cracks in an era when hatred becomes the common language. Following the voices of the marginalized-beggars, migrants, rebellious youths, figures the world would prefer to silence-he attempts to translate their presence into sound, thought, and narrative. As Venice transforms under the impact of water and time, Alvise seeks a language capable of restoring depth to the human condition: a fragile and unpredictable language that names what no one wants to hear. *The mirror of change* chronicles this quest: a novel about a world that is burning and about those who still try to give it a voice.