Sofia viste siempre de negro

Sofia, a pirate girl, frustrated suicide, actress -by existential vocation and by work-, is the central axis that backbones this novel, composed of ten independent chapters that recount the stages of the life of a girl like many. From childhood in an apparently normal petty-bourgeois family, but crossed by tensions and relational problems, going through a tormented adolescence marked by mental disorders, to the discovery of passions and sex, to finally reach the threshold of maturity, when the past crystallizes and becomes an object of analysis, in an immutable tale that is reread over and over again with indulgent or remorseful eyes depending on the circumstances. With a polyhedral, precise and intense writing, Paolo Cognetti presents a fresco of complex characters that condense the vast gray scale of human experience, in which the precious portrait of a restless woman stands out, capable of surviving her own neuroses until finding, with great effort, his way.