After the success of Selvaggio Ovest, Daniele Pasquini returns to GO with La fine della frontiera (NN Editore), a work that intertwines the western and the historical novel, where identity, choices, and destiny are measured against the course of history. It is a story of men and women searching for a place in the world and for something worth living — or dying — for. For this presentation, the author will be joined by Nicoletta Verna.

The book:

In 1861, Italy is a newly unified nation, and America promises an endless future. Dante Niccolai, a young Tuscan cart driver left orphaned, leaves his home to accompany the Ferrini family to the port of Genoa and decides to embark with them for the New World, chasing the mirage of a better life. Between him and Adele Ferrini an epistolary relationship is born, made of promises and long ожидations, but the vastness of the continent divides them: Dante wanders for years through the heart of America, while Adele finds a new identity among the Cheyenne. Their stories intertwine with History and with the adventures of Carlo Di Rudio, a Mazzinian revolutionary who escaped the guillotine and forced labor, and who chooses the West as his final trench. And as the white offensive culminates in the legendary Battle of Little Bighorn, symbol of Native resistance, a web of guilt, betrayal, and violence — bearing the name of the ferocious Iron Jack — binds together the destinies of Dante, Adele, and Carlo. La fine della frontiera is a historical and adventure novel, where the wandering lives of its protagonists stand out against the sunset of the myth of the West. With the clear voice of someone telling stories by a fire, Daniele Pasquini reminds us that life is a great battle already lost — but when the heart runs like a galloping horse, we can only mount up and ride.

This book is for those who travel for the pure pleasure of getting lost, for those hoping for another prequel of Yellowstone, for those who feel in their gut the rumbling of swallowed words, and for those who have discovered that a powerful desire is at once a condemnation and a blessing — a hunger for light that pushes us to march beyond the horizon.

The author:

Daniele Pasquini was born in 1988 in the province of Florence and works in publishing communication. He made his fiction debut in 2009 with Io volevo Ringo Starr, followed by a short novel and a collection of stories, all published by Intermezzi Editore. In 2022 he published Un naufragio with SEM. For NNE he published Selvaggio Ovest (2024), winner of the Selezione Bancarella Prize, finalist for the Alessandro Manzoni International Literary Prize, and finalist for the Asti d’Appello Prize.