Lucio falls in love with “the boy” even before meeting him: he only needs to observe him from his office window for him to become almost an obsession. When they finally meet, he discovers that Davide is much younger than him (he is still studying), and that he is elusive, unreliable and “cruel” as boys in their twenties can be cruel.
For two months Lucio and Davide have dinner together, have sex, go to the beach, often sleep at Lucio’s house. Davide, however, does not fall in love. He continues to look for Lorenzo, the only man he has (perhaps) truly loved and of whom he only keeps a pixelated photo on an old cell phone. Like most twenty-year-olds, he is also disoriented, hurt, willing to snuggle up in the daily routine of a Coca-Cola always ready for him in the refrigerator.
Di me non sai tells of a relationship lived in an opposite, incompatible way, whose nature is revealed to the reader only as the novel unfolds. Alternating the points of view of the two protagonists in short, sometimes very short chapters, Raffaele Cataldo shows the misalignment of feelings and the painful consequences it can have, the slowness of hot Apulian summers, and the obsessive loves (present and absent) that like the seeds of invasive oats stick to hair, shoes and clothes.
(Source: accentedizioni.it)
Born in 1991 in Puglia, he is a writer who graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures in Bari and attended the Holden School in Turin, where he lives. Di me non sai is his first published work.
