"Con un nonno anarchico, un padre transumanista e una mamma che adora le api e che non c’è, il ragazzino, sordo profondo e con un corpo che gli va dove gli pare, cerca il modo di affrontare quel mondo silenzioso e frastornante che lo circonda. Non ha abbastanza parole nella testa per metterci dentro tutto quello che pensa.
Parla con i segni, perché a lui le parole vere e proprie non gli vengono bene. Senza contare che le parole vogliono sempre far credere quello che fa comodo a loro. Segna al nonno quando lui lo porta con sé a dissotterrare i vermi da studiare al microscopio. Segna al fratello geniale impegnato a progettare rivoluzionari circuiti integrati e algoritmi. E segna alla madre, che non può rispondergli. A lei, relegata nel silenzio, nessuno racconta mai nulla. Solo lui lo fa, solo lui pensa che presto tornerà a spalancare i suoi occhi più verdi degli smeraldi.
Tra stufe a trucioli che si gestiscono da sole, arnie intelligenti, venefiche multinazionali, entità digitali e reti neurali, anche il suo amico Baco impara in fretta, ha un sacco di idee su come far andare le cose. Vive nascosto come un macroanellide, interviene continuamente in tutto, abilissimo a scatenare situazioni scomode e veri disastri."
"2020 Italian Prose in Translation Award
2019 Foreword INDIE Gold Award for Literary Fiction
A Financial Times Best Book of 2019
Diabolically funny and subversively philosophical, Italian novelist Giacomo Sartori’s I Am God is the diary of the Almighty’s existential crisis that erupts when he falls in love with a human.
I am God. Have been forever, will be forever. Forever, mind you, with the razor-sharp glint of a diamond, and without any counterpart in the languages of men. So begins God’s diary of the existential crisis that ensues when, inexplicably, he falls in love with a human. And not just any human, but a geneticist and fanatical atheist who’s certain she can improve upon the magnificent creation she doesn’t even give him the credit for. It’s frustrating, for a god.
God has infinitely bigger things to occupy his celestial attentions. Yet he can’t tear his eyes (so to speak) from the geneticist who’s unsettlingly avid when it comes to science, sex, and Sicilian cannoli. Whatever happens, he must safeguard his transcendental dignity. So he watches—disinterestedly, of course—as the handsome climatologist who has his sights set on her keeps having strange accidents. And as the lanky geneticist becomes hell-bent on infiltrating the Vatican’s secret files, for reasons of her own….
A sly critique of the hypocrisy and hubris that underlie faith in religion, science, and macho careerism, I Am God takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the Big Questions with the universe’s supreme storyteller."
"With the wicked humor and imagination that made readers fall in love with his novel I Am God, Giacomo Sartori brings us a madcap story of family dysfunction, (dis)ability, intelligent robots, bees, and a family of misfit savants living outside the bounds.
In the singular world of the young, deaf narrator of Bug, there are just a handful of people who try to understand him when he gets into trouble at school. His father, a data analyst for Nutella whose real job is to pinpoint terrorists, is clueless about humans in real life. His brilliant brother, called IQ in public and Robin Hood in the hackersphere, has his back but is ever busier training his robot. His grandfather, a retired anarchist-guerilla-turned-nematologist, chides him for misbehaving when he takes him hunting for worms. Meanwhile, his Buddhist beekeeper mother, ordinarily his closest confidante, has been in a coma ever since a terrible car accident.
Just when the family’s survival in their converted chicken coop seems most precarious, someone—or something—new enters his life: Bug. This self-declared “fast friend” seems to know all about his family and has some creative, if not strictly legal, ideas about how to help...."
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