MEZZANOTTE
“You fly high” (Rumore)
“Glowing dazzle” (Sole 24 Ore)
“Cinematic” (Diva e Donna)
“Among the 3 best books of January” (Wired)
“A Hollywood movie” (Riformista)
“Very interesting” (TGR Campania)
“Hallucinations and daydreams” (Il Mattino)
“Crescendo of suspense” (Provincia di Cremona)
Novel, 263 pages
Castelvecchi Editore
19 January 2024
“What the fuck is doing a five-feet kangaroo on my plane?”Β
An Airbus 320 of SpeedAir Airline with 117 passengersΒ on board, which has just left Milan and is heading to Tunis, makes an incredible emergency landing on the A1 Highway, after losing a landing gear and both engines a few minutes after take-off. The man flying the aircraft is called Mauro Mezzanotte, civil aviation pilot, Captain with fifteen years of experience behind him.
What happened to the flight 282?
To put together all the pieces of the puzzle, the reader is catapulted into the life of Mezzanotte between cockpits and take-off runaways, punk skies andΒ 4am alarm clocks, ocean view suites and solo flights in the Californian deserts.
In the meantime extreme weather phenomena are plaguing the planet, and when yet another international climate conference ends with no results demonstrations rage everywhere against the inability of governments to deal with the emergency. While the protests infect the planet like a viral swarm, Mezzanotte’s life implodes in a progressive loss of control.
A novel that talks above all about broken things and how to fix them. Mezzanotte says: βMaybe madness is thinking that everything will always go smoothly, maybe balance is knowing that nothing will be as you imagined, and that’s just okay.”