104 There's a "chat" for you
in secondary school

Once upon a time there were epistolary novels. The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis… And they still exist, of course, but is it possible to imagine an “epistolary” story written entirely in a chat? And how could a friendship born in a chat and based on a single rule work: simply write to each other without ever seeing or meeting. This is Scusa ma resto qui by Alessandro Barbaglia (Mondadori), a story made up of a cascade of messages, the ones exchanged between Zeno and Luna after he is the victim of bullying and she—who doesn't know him—texts him on his cell phone, a single word: sorry. What will become of the two's strange and virtual friendship? And why doesn't Luna ever want her and Zeno to meet? A novel as quick as a chat, as surprising as an unexpected message, in the middle of the night. With Matteo Corradini.

Meeting for lower secondary school classes