Bildungsromans are not all the same. They talk about maturation, the traumatic passage from adolescence to adulthood, the desire to grow up, the search for oneself and the fear of a world that is falling apart with the uncertain wait for the new one to come. And in this they sometimes resemble each other.
But then there are stories that have the candid and comic flavor of a sitcom, especially if the protagonist grows up in a small town in the Lombardy province in the glittering 1980s, thinks that Morrissey wrote the Smiths’ songs just for him, and discovers he is gay because of the untranslatable love he feels for his cousin.
So no, the stories are not all the same. Because the promise, in this case, is to find ourselves happy watching the micro-dramas of everyday life, wondering with a smile if the life of a homosexual is not a continuous soap opera of doubt, to answer ourselves euphorically that the moment to live as each one wants will come sooner or later.
A cult book in gay literature – first published way back in 1999 and republished today by Fandango Libri in its enriched and definitive Extensions edition – Generations of love is back in bookstores.
Alongside the original novel, the author has added eight brilliant stories that revolve around those same characters, satellite episodes that make us smile and cry, today as then.
Synopsis source : fandangolibri.it
Published date : May 3, 2024
Born Matteo Bianchi, he is an Italian writer and television author.
