We live in an era where only perfection is considered worthy. Any inadequacy, any weakness, any sensitivity, vulnerability, fragility is forbidden. Nevertheless, there is a way to save ourselves and create, like you, Giacomo, another fertile land, the country of those who know how to be fragile.

Through a series of fictional letters to the beloved Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro D'Avenia starts a dialogue with the reader. In the timeless verses of a poet who is relentlessly rejected as pessimistic and unlucky, the author finds inspiration and motivation, nostalgia and vital energy, the well-being of nature and the turmoil of passion. He uses Leopardi's poems as a starting point to answer the many burning questions that young people have asked him over time, as they were searching for themselves and the deeper meaning of life.

The challenge posed by D'Avenia is simple: Leopardi found the reason for his existence in poetry, which allowed him to live his life, even though it was not kind to him. What is the passion that makes young people feel alive?

An especially poetic existential journey and a sensitive reading of Leopardi, whose poetry does not evoke pessimism and introspection, but an endless struggle against oneself, against the absence of happiness and the lack of purpose and direction that characterizes our era. A book that every parent should give to their children and every teacher to their students during the difficult years that lead to adulthood.