Trust defies History

St. Petersburg, 1900: in an alternate twentieth century where international disputes are settled on the tennis court, the young Russian officer Baz Kozlov sets off for Paris with a racket and an unwavering trust in the world. An unexpected encounter at the Berlin train station will forever bend the arc of his destiny, sweeping him into an odyssey among gangsters, spies, silent film stars, and real-life historical figures. An alternate-history world-novel, Non vi sarà più notte (Mondadori) —winner of the Premio De Sanctis — is the story of a man who stubbornly pits his trust in human goodness against the onslaught of History, until History asserts itself with all its might.