Appunti di meccanica celeste

Girifalco, Calabria. Seven characters find themselves living a moment of suspension in their lives, a phase in which their existence seems to have reached a dead end. The morning after San Lorenzo, the night of the stars, a circus arrives in Girifalco. It is not one of those that stops by every now and then; it is a caravan enveloped in an enchanted aura, a glittering procession of elephants and tamers, trapeze artists, knife throwers and illusionists. The news shocks the people and excites the spirits, and will change the fortunes of the novel’s seven protagonists forever. Domenico Dara returns to the place of his debut – the Girifalco of “Breve trattato sulle coincidenze”, a real town and at the same time an evocative Magna Grecian Macondo – to tell a story of subverted destinies and earthly miracles, a literary fairy tale that invites us to look at reality beyond common appearances.