Chinese Summary/中文概要:
A lost father, a stepbrother angry at the world, a mother who goes out every night to the local fun park. Chicco is eight years old, weighs a fifty kilos and has only one question in mind: where do the people who abandon you go?
Chicco has a problem: like so many kids all he’d like to have is a mother that loves him, a father who’d teach him, and a bigger brother to imitate. Instead, the mother does it with the carnival touts and comes back drunk at seven o’ clock in the morning, his stepbrother closes Chicco in his room with a plate of cold meatballs when he wants to be alone with his girlfriend, and his father spends the afternoons watching Baywatch, eating wafers and mayonnaise. In short, his life is a disaster, and yet his story makes you smile as it stabs your heart page after page. Barbara Di Gregorio digs into the depths of a child pain in a story of unusual maturity, which doesn’t respect any rules. This a novel to make us believe that the immagination can save lives.