Ciao Ciao
One businessman, three phones, and the long way home.
He is forty-four, Milanese, and very good at what he does. On the Thursday before the biggest signing of his life, he walks out of Milan station with three phones: one for the money, one for everyone who wants something from him, and one that has never rung. The third is for his mother.
He takes a train north and never makes the signing. What follows is a long, looping journey across Europe that strips him of his status, his money and nearly everything he owned: a dish pit in a Lyon kitchen, the cab of a lorry crossing the Pyrenees, an old love in Lisbon who has built a whole life without him, a pilgrim road to Galicia, a wedding at dusk, the soup served after a funeral.
Everywhere he goes, people ask him the same small question, the one Italians ask in place of everything else: Hai mangiato? Have you eaten?
Written in the restless first person of the great road books, Ciao Ciao is a novel about what a man owns when he owns nothing, how much of life happens at someone else's table, and the long road back toward the people who never stopped setting a place for him.
Warm, unhurried and hopeful. For readers who love a journey that changes the traveller.
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