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Rating: Available in Mondadori and Feltrinelli stores, in both paperback and e-book formats, the book "They Are Back, the Red Bracelets" (Stile Libero Editions, 2017, pp. 216). The idea for the book arose shortly after the author's participation in the literary prize 'Notad’Autore2016'. In fact, to be precise, the mentioned title was already present in Mimmo Parisi's debut book, "Stories from the Suburbs".
En passant and for accuracy, it's worth noting that the referenced volume reached second place after "Scusate il disordine" by Luciano Ligabue. Also present (in ex aequo with Parisi) were Mattia Briga with "Don't Hate Me" and, in third place, the excellent Cristiano De André with "C's Version".
However, following the favorable reception at the literary award, it was decided that the story "They Are Back, the Red Bracelets" deserved further elaboration.
Thus, a new arrangement was planned for the characters, even adding some brand-new ones. Although organized around the main story, "They Are Back, the Red Bracelets," the volume presents another truly interesting one: "The Harmonica". This latter story is carried out through ironic narration and sheds light on, unfortunately, a servile human reality without great aspirations for self-realization.
In short and in extreme synthesis, it's about an individual who, stopping at a service station to buy some trivial cookies, encounters an anthropological specimen – a bartender – firmly convinced that politicians and their like are, rightfully, healthy carriers of caliph-like salaries. Reading this story, "The Harmonica," is strongly discouraged for those who are happy being part of the herd, who support pensions, who think that equality among humans is not right because it levels people... and then, what a bore! Better to be different, some millionaires, some dirt-poor, some sick without any chance of treatment.
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