Massimo Bisotti
Un anno per un giorno

"I am writing Un anno per un giorno, a book that talks partly about regrets. With this book, I want to highlight our relationship with time, regrets, and the ability to seize the life we want at the moment.”
Massimo Bisotti

“Un anno per un giorno” by Massimo Bisotti, published by Mondadori in the Omnibus series, is the latest novel by the author of “The Painting Never Made” and “Frames of the Soul,” major successes that convinced the public of his talent.
It gathers profound reflections with a compelling plot on the periods that accompany human existence, such as time, its close connection with chance, destiny, and true love.

Set between Paris and Naples, it tells the life of Alex Gioia, a successful singer who feels he has let slip through his fingers a love story with the young Greta, in a Paris unfamiliar to him and where no one knows him, searching for lost inspiration. Until an unexpected encounter offers Alex the opportunity to return to a day in his past and change it. But everything has a price. A year for a day. He returns to the hotel reflecting on what happened; “What if it were really like this?”

The author adeptly narrates unforgettable characters, the poetry and beauty of feelings, of the cities in which it is set, creating an exciting, new, and heartfelt novel. We essentially love what we miss.

“I will enter your thoughts every now and then, it will surely happen until the end, with all the impossible things tied to the wind blowing in the heart. Then you will turn me off to devote yourself to your reality, but we will meet again in some dream, in some flashback of the past that resurfaces from things that rust and that you will still see shining, like a ring that never lost its initial luster despite the time.
You will put it back on your finger to retrace encounters, stations, airports, magic.
I will run through your veins at that moment so strongly that it will seem impossible to you that I can enter like a sea into your body. You will realize that beauty hurts, that everything that is too strong presses on the chest and can choke, tear the flesh when weak it has surrendered to an easy goodbye”

I found it an interesting book, though I must admit I have a bias since I like Massimo Bisotti's writing very much.

Here you can find his book, I recommend it!

But Who is Massimo Bisotti

“In reality, I write very instinctively. I am pleased that through my writing a message is conveyed, which is to reevaluate authenticity at the expense of perfection. We are not perfect, and those who expect perfection from us should understand that they are not perfect either. We should resemble as much as possible the people we would like to meet. If my way of presenting myself to the world is kind, not arrogant and respectful, protecting the spaces of others, I cannot go wrong. As Toto said, “treat as they treat you, which is never wrong.” Sometimes it happens to attract hatred with my writing. I believe there are synonyms we find in the dictionary but cannot be applied to everyday life: simple is not trivial; easy is not simple. Love is simple, but many pieces need to coincide for a simple miracle to occur, but it is not easy at all.”

Massimo Bisotti was born in Rome in 1979 where he still lives. He studied literature, passionate about literature, psychology, and Eastern philosophies. He began writing, in his own words, because words had the power to heal wounds and mend scars. Passionate about music, he plays the piano and before embarking on his writing career, he changed many jobs, including bartender, call center operator, and assistant in a clinic.

” Exposing oneself is a risk but it is worth taking the risk. Merging without confusing is the basis of every relationship that works. Using every pain lived for others and not as a passport against others. Spending oneself without reservations and giving what one can. So give what one is. Travel through the roads of the soul but without going against the heart. Having your heart against you is more devastating than having the heart of others against you. My biography in two words? Never against the heart”

At twenty, he wrote his first novel, but it was in 2012 with “The Blue Moon” that he found success. Now in its eighth reprint, it continues to be a great success with the public and in sales. In 2014, he published “The Painting Never Made,” a novel that remained at the top of the charts for several weeks, consolidating and establishing the writer's skills. The book is translated in Brazil, Spain, and the Latin American countries.

Here is the link to all the books written by Massimo Bisotti

On May 10, 2016, again for Mondadori, Bisotti published his new novel, Un anno per un giorno, which was presented for the first time to the public at the Turin International Book Fair. The books he has written and published are as follows:

• Foto/grammi dell’anima – Libere [Im]perfezioni, Edizioni Smasher, March 2010 (First edition); Edizioni Psiconline 2013 (Second edition); Mondadori, February 10, 2015 (Third edition).
• La luna blu – Il percorso inverso dei sogni, Psiconline, 2012 (First edition); Ultra Castelvecchi, 2013 (Second edition).
• Il quadro mai dipinto, Mondadori, May 6, 2014.
• Un anno per un giorno, Mondadori, May 10, 2016