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Thomas Nelson
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
272 pages ISBN: 0785217061 EAN: 9780785217060 Kindle: B077CVJZ85 Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult
At long last, the Italian bestseller White as
Milk, Red as Blood, is available in English as
White as Silence, Red as Song. D'Avenia's International bestseller has been called Italy's
The Fault in Our Stars. Leo is an ordinary sixteen-year-old: he loves hanging out
with his friends, playing soccer, and zipping around on his
motorbike. The time he has to spend at school is a drag, and
his teachers are "a protected species that you hope will
become extinct," so when a new history and philosophy
teacher arrives, Leo greets him with his usual antipathy.
But this young man turns out to be different. His eyes
sparkle when he talks, and he encourages his students to
live passionately and follow their dreams. Leo now feels like a lion, as his name suggests, but there
is still one thing that terrifies him: the color white.
White is absence; everything related to deprivation and loss
in his life is white. Red, on the other hand, is the color
of love, passion, and blood; red is the color of Beatrice's
hair. Leo's dream is a girl named Beatrice, the prettiest in
school. Beatrice is irresistible-one look from her is enough
to make Leo forget about everything else. There is, however, a female presence much closer to Leo,
which he finds harder to see because she's right under his
nose: the ever-dependable and serene Silvia. When he
discovers that Beatrice has leukemia and that her disease is
related to the white that scares him so much, Leo is forced
to search within himself, to bleed and to be reborn. In the
process, he comes to understand that dreams must never die,
and he finds the strength to believe in something bigger
than himself. White as Silence, Red as Song is not only a
coming-of-age story and the narrative of a school year, but
it is also a bold novel that, through Leo's monologue-at
times easygoing and full of verve, at times more intimate
and anguished-depicts what happens when suffering and shock
burst into the world of a teenager, and the world of adults
is rendered speechless.
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