This novel was published in Italian in 2014 by Feltrinelli House. Within months, it sold more than 100,000 copies in a strange phenomenon for the book selling movement in Italy.
It was very hot that Friday morning, the day off, when we and I had pledged to be brothers, under the shade of an acacia tree, the road was long and arduous and we were sweating seven kilometers without stopping for a moment, from Pondière where we live to the stadium Mons, passing through all the little paths that Ali knew as the palm of his hand, unconcerned by the scorching heat of the sun
