The Glass Days

-EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2025
-MANZONI PRIZE 2025 FOR BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL

Redenta and Iris. Two different women growing up in the vortex of World War II in remote Romagna. Redenta, a victim of polio from a poor family, is socially stigmatized and deprived of the right to a basic education. Iris grows up cut off from politics until she falls in love with the partisan Diaz and passionately joins the Resistance. The lives of the two women will intersect for just three days. Then their destiny will be inextricably linked, proving that the fight for freedom will always defy the fear of death.

A gripping story of internal resistance, dignity, hope, and faith in humanity.