Invernale
Dario Voltolini author Brian Shannon translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Cross Press
Published:29th Oct '26
Should be back in stock very soon
Turin, the late 1970s. Under the hundred-year-old steel roof of the market, Gino practices the art of butchery with precision and skill. He is a master of his craft, moving in time with the frantic dance of the stalls, until a momentary lapse turns a blade towards his thumb. With this slight, physical slip, a different kind of severance begins.
As a mysterious exhaustion takes root, Gino is forced from the noise of the stalls to the clinical silence of a Parisian oncology institute. Invernale is a stark, raw meditation on the fragile boundary between the body that works and the body that fails.
Dario Voltolini’s minimalist masterpiece is an act of witness. A tribute that meticulously captures a father, his discipline and generosity, his love of football and the pain of a son.
It is certainly difficult to write about Invernale by Dario Voltolini, because to speak of it means to recount a novel written in a state of grace – one that contains some of the finest pages ever composed by the author, and among the most beautiful in recent Italian literature.
-- Demetrio Paolin * Corriere della Sera *Literary mastery, anguish, restrained fury, beauty, despair, and modesty. One reads the final pages of this book with tears in their eyes.
-- Antonio MorescoInvernale is an extraordinarily powerful novel – one that knocks you to the ground even as it lifts you up, that takes you from behind while looking you straight in the face – and Voltolini is a great writer, there’s no two ways about it.
-- Sandro Vero- Joint winner of Premio Wondy 2025 (Italy)
- Runner-up for Premio Strega 2024 (Italy)
- Short-listed for Premio Bergamo 2025 (Italy)
ISBN: 9781919489117
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 117g
144 pages