{"product_id":"the-life-of-those-left-behindisbn-9781635424522","title":"The Life of Those Left Behind","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this heartbreaking yet hopeful autobiographical novel, an acclaimed Italian author who lost his partner to suicide testifies to the power of storytelling in living with grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen in 1999 30-year-old Matteo B. Bianchi published his debut novel—a scathing portrait of the sentimental education of a gay boy from Milan in the 1980s—the timing couldn’t be worse: he had just lost S., the man he’d lived with for 7 years, who one day, a few months after they broke up, decided to hang himself in their apartment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatteo is the first to find the body, to scream without being able to scream. From that day a “dark labyrinth” ensnares him, a whirlpool of suffering, made up of contradictory feelings and constant bewilderment, which unites all the so-called survivors of the suicide of a loved one. Matteo seems to be the unhappy protagonist of a rare event as he feels a unique pain, perversely special. However, at the same time, even in the darkest days, the writer who lives in him starts taking notes. At first, they are just fragments, shards of an existence shattered into a thousand pieces, echoes of feelings alive like nerves that Matteo reports unabashedly on the page. Then, they slowly transform and, memory after memory, become a profound and intimate conversation with S. and the pain, between the temptation to let go and the desire to get back to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth radical and vulnerable, intimate and universal, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Those Who Remain \u003c\/i\u003eis a devastating but luminous novel about surviving the aftermath of trauma. Bianchi produces pages of excruciating beauty, recounting his journey to redemption, hope, and rebirth, and showing how, even in the depths of the most unspeakable pain, writing—his own, and also powerful works such as Joan Didion’s \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking \u003c\/i\u003eand Ocean Vuong’s \u003ci\u003eOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous\u003c\/i\u003e—can still save.“I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time…Matteo [Bianchi] is unique. \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Those Left Behind\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece that sheds light on his entire journey. It’s an invaluable gift for readers.” —Paolo Cognetti, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Eight Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatteo B. Bianchi\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Milan in 1966, is an author, editor, and screenwriter. His previous novels include \u003ci\u003eGenerations of Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMaria accanto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael F. Moore \u003c\/b\u003eis the award-winning translator, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eThe Betrothed\u003c\/i\u003e, by Alessandro Manzoni, hailed as a landmark literary event. His translations range from twentieth-century classics—\u003ci\u003eAgostino\u003c\/i\u003e by Alberto Moravia and \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned and the Saved\u003c\/i\u003e by Primo Levi—to contemporary novels, including \u003ci\u003eLive Bait\u003c\/i\u003e, by Fabio Genovesi. Moore is the former chair of the PEN\/Heim Translation Fund and has a PhD in Italian from New York University. For many years he was also an interpreter at the United Nations and a full-time staff member of the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301138583781,"sku":"NP9781635424522","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635424522.jpg?v=1730746994","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-life-of-those-left-behindisbn-9781635424522","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}