About the Author:
Andrea De Carlo was born and grew up in Milan, Italy.
After graduating from the State University of Milan with a degree in modern literature, he traveled extensively in the United States, Europe and Australia.
In 1981 Einaudi published his first novel, Treno di Panna ("Creamtrain"), for which Italo Calvino wrote an introduction. A movie adapted from the book would later be produced.
His second novel, "Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera" ("Cage and Aviary Birds"), published in the spring of 1982, was praised by legendary film director Federico Fellini, who offered De Carlo the chance to work as his assistant director.
Andrea De Carlo has written a total of seventeen novels: "Treno di panna" (Creamtrain), "Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera" ("Cage and Aviary Birds"), "Macno", "Yucatan", "Due di due" (Two Out of Two"), "Tecniche di seduzione" ("Techniques of Seduction"), "Arcodamore", "Uto", "Di noi tre", "Nel momento", "Pura vita", "I veri nomi", "Giro di vento" (Windshift"), "Mare delle verità" ("Sea of Truth"), "Durante", "Leielui" ("She and He") and "Villa Metaphora".
His novels have been translated into 26 languages.
From Publishers Weekly:
In bestselling Italian author De Carlo's English language debut, four high-powered old friends-sensitive and conflicted editor Luisa; her uptight architect husband Enrico; Arturo, a hearty and practical designer; and Margherita, a mercurial talk-show host-embark from Milan on a weekend trip to rural Umbria. With their comically preening real estate agent Alessio, they are looking for a retreat from their frenetic urban lives (as well as an investment opportunity). But when their car breaks down, their cell phones get no signal, and a storm hits, they find themselves seeking shelter with a singularly uninviting group of people: a commune of squatters in the very houses they sought to buy, the settlement known as Windshift. Led by the charismatic Lauro, the settlers have rejected contemporary society and live a pre-modern, off-the-grid existence. As hours stretch into days, the five urbanites respond to their hosts in radically different ways, and suppressed rage and hidden desires explode in a series of confrontations. It's a schematic set-up, but De Carlo's finely tuned characterizations bring his heinously egocentric characters into vivid focus. De Carlo creates real drama in taking imperfect but self-aware people out of their element. Cell phones take a bashing, too.
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