As a young boy Marcello has violent tendencies but quickly notices that his peers find these urges abnormal. After he commits a horrible crime in the search for a gun to impress his schoolmates, he makes it his mission to strive towards complete normalcy.
As an adult he works as a government agent under the fascist regime of Mussolini. He gets tasked with a mission to make contact with an old professor of him, who has fled to Paris. The newly-wed Marcello offers to use his honeymoon as a cover for his presence in Paris.
A novel about a search for normalcy, and an exploration on what it means to be normal. Set against the backdrop of the fascist regime of Mussolini, it's fall, and the second world war.
As a young boy Marcello has violent tendencies but quickly notices that his peers find these urges abnormal. After he commits a horrible crime in the search for a gun to impress his schoolmates, he makes it his mission to strive towards complete normalcy.
As an adult he works as a government agent under the fascist regime of Mussolini. He gets tasked with a mission to make contact with an old professor of him, who has fled to Paris. The newly-wed Marcello offers to use his honeymoon as a cover for his presence in Paris.
A novel about a search for normalcy, and an exploration on what it means to be normal. Set against the backdrop of the fascist regime of Mussolini, it's fall, and the second world war.