Lost on Me

Resumen del libro

A delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.

As she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.

Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own).

Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation.

Biografía del autor

p b Veronica Raimo /b (Roma, 1978) es escritora, guionista y traductora. Ha publicado las novelas i Il dolore secondo Matteo /i (2007), i Tutte le feste di domani /i (2013), i Miden /i (2018) y i Nada es verdad /i (2022; Libros del Asteroide, 2023; ganadora del Premio Strega Giovani y el Premio Literario Viareggio-Rèpaci), y el libro de relatos i La vida es breve, etcétera /i (2023; Libros del Asteroide, 2025). Es también autora del poemario i Le bambinacce /i (2019) y del guion de la película i Bella addormentata /i (2012), dirigida por Marco Bellocchio. Ha traducido del inglés a autores como F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury y Octavia E. Butler, y colabora en diversos periódicos.<br>