Everything Calls for Salvation
Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli, published by Europa Editions on November 14, 2023, is a poignant exploration of the human experience through the lens of mental illness. This 176-page novel follows twenty-year-old Daniele, who awakens in a hospital room after a night marked by anxiety and violence. As he navigates the realities of a week-long mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward, he confronts both his inner turmoil and the complexities of his relationships with family and friends.
Readers will find a narrative rich in emotional depth as Mencarelli draws from personal experience to depict Daniele’s journey through darkness and despair. The story unfolds in a setting populated by fellow patients, each grappling with their own struggles, and together they discover the strength found in shared vulnerability and empathy. This edition presents a compelling look at themes of friendship and the challenges faced by marginalized individuals, inviting reflection on the nature of normality and the power of solidarity.
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WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE
From one of the most exciting voices in a new generation of Italian writers, a powerful and moving novel that explores both the darkest recesses and the most luminous regions of the human heart
June 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers. Slowly, memories of the previous night return to him: a spiral of anxiety and anger, an explosion of violence so intense that it almost inflicted irreparable damage to him and his family… To his horror, Daniele learns from the doctors that he’s been sentenced to a week of mandatory treatment in a psychiatric ward.
Writing with lucid realism and stunning emotional force, and drawing from the author’s own personal experience of mental illness, Mencarelli chronicles Daniele’s seven days in the hospital as he struggles to find a way out of the darkness. Daniele finds unexpected companions in his fellow patients–men who, like him, have felt the full brunt of life’s pain. Together they will realize the hidden strength and value of their common fragility and of the boundless empathy they feel towards others.
By focusing on some of the most marginalized people in our society, Mencarelli has written a heartbreaking and unforgettable novel that challenges our notion of normality and celebrates the salvific power of solidarity and vulnerability.
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