Dario Rensich finished sixth in the New York marathon.
A flattering result, just enough to become a respected coach for the Federation, which sends him to Hungary with the task of preparing a group of young middle-distance runners for the marathon, determined to seize the opportunity to stand out. A torturous process for the adoption of Fiona, the little girl that he and his wife Maura are "waiting for," seems to have reached its final stages just as Dario departs for Szeged, the town on the banks of the Danube.
The dying river, polluted by cyanide, accompanies the training of the seven ambitious eighteen-year-olds... (cit. einaudi.it)
"A perdifiato delivers, with a syncopated and courageous prose,
in constant need of oxygen,
the mad sprint of man towards disaster."
(from la Repubblica)
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