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Sicily, 1743. The plague decimates the population of the city of Messina. Since the forced confinement imposed by the epidemic, two women -two friends- exchange letters. In them they speak of the time that passes slowly, of the fear of contagion, of life threatened by a blind and unpredictable disease and, above all, of love; of the love that binds them to the same man, Agata's husband and Annuzza's lover. In this intense epistolary novel -with which Maraini returns to the historical fiction that established her as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century- friendship and love intertwine in a delicate balance that shelters from the voracious flame of jealousy and social conventions the unbreakable relationship that binds the two women and knows no selfishness or exclusivity. In this delicate work, impregnated with the aromas and colors of a Sicily so far away in time and at the same time so close to the present, Dacia Maraini tells us what can save us when everything falls apart.