the dog, the snow, a foot, Claudio Morandini, Laura Brignon

Adelmo Farandola lives alone in his remote mountain chalet. Since time immemorial. Seasons have passed, no doubt, and others, identical, will surely come. Although. Adelmo Farandola's memory is not very lucid. Winters pile up in his approximate memory as if they were one. A single, long winter spent away from men in absolute, desired, maintained solitude – gruff, a little mean. But that winter, a dog appears. Spirited. Its nose alert. Adelmo Farandola talks with this disruptive animal he met, then, this winter… or the one before, perhaps? In any case, when the snow finally engulfs his chalet in its muffled gloom, Adelmo Farandola, protected by his squalor, doesn’t need to eat the dog to survive. They both make it to spring. An avalanche that descended near the dwelling gradually reveals a human foot as it melts. But who put it there? Adelmo Farandola doesn't have a very reliable memory of last year's events… With Le chien, la neige, un pied (The Dog, the Snow, a Foot), Claudio Morandini delivers a moving and cruel novel about solitude, the mountains, and their madness. Le chien, la neige, un pied (Neve, cane, piede, in Italian), received the Elsa Morante Prize for Best Novel in 2016.

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