A Step Away from Life

By CALOGERO GAGLIANO

In A Step Away from Life, a man looks back on his life through childhood, illness, desire, escape, solitude, and the bonds that leave a lasting mark. From his earliest years, the world reaches him through scents, silence, fear, and a tenderness held in check. As he grows, he learns how difficult it can be truly to inhabit one's own gestures, one's own body, one's own days.
Amid loss, memory, and a few rare, decisive presences, his voice moves through time with a clarity that is both intense and vulnerable. An alabaster box, a friendship that knows how to remain close without intruding, the faithful companionship of Joy, and the call of the sea become the fixed points of an inward journey shaped by fragility, distance, and all that continues to endure, even through pain.
A Step Away from Life is a novel about incompleteness, restraint, the struggle to dwell fully in the world, and the deeply human need to find meaning even in what has never come to fulfilment.
A novel for readers of literary fiction, for those drawn to stories of profound emotional depth, and for those who love books that leave behind, in silence, a lasting ache.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GX9PWQMZ
• ISBN13: 9798257421143
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.3"