Author:
Fabio Genovesi
Publishing house:
Mondadori
Date of publication:
03-09-2019
Rolando lives in the cemetery, together with his uncle who is a caretaker. He leaves only to go to school, where his classmates avoid him, and he has no friends except a blackbird named Cip. When cousins Marika and Mirko Gini appear among the gravestones one day, Rolando finds two friends his own age. But the Gini cousins are ghosts and will soon disappear forever into the Big Hole. To save them , Roland must go deep into Mount Puppet Mountain, all the way to black darkness, to find the Red Thing by midnight the next day, when it will also be his birthday. The journey together with Cip through the wilderness turns into a resounding feat, in the company of unforgettable characters: a lurching robber, a cross-eyed hunter,an elegant and refined female boar, and a wild child who calls herself Tiger and lives in the woods.