James describes himself as just another man, an ordinary man, and he probably is. Yet in the course of his long existence, he happens to have three experiences that are nothing short of extraordinary. As a young boy, to begin with, he becomes convinced in mid-August 1995 that he has become invisible. As an adult, in his late 40s, he begins to care for a mysterious black egg that seems to contain something alive. As an old man, he finally discovers what he believes to be the passage to another world. Through excerpts from his diary describing these mysterious and out-of-the-ordinary events, James chronicles the three ages of his life. During the summer of his adolescence he will discover himself and realize that he likes boys instead of girls, as an adult he will have to accept and overcome the end of a love affair, and at the end of his existence he will come to terms with old age and the idea of death. What will be left of him? (source IBS.co.uk)
Lorenzo Giacinti was born in Arezzo in 1982. He graduated as a Master of Art and from the International School of Comics in 2001, and then approached the world of cinema as a screenwriter and director of short films, video clips, and the film Women Without Men. Doppelgänger is his first novel.
