Tomas Bassini was born in 1985. After graduating in Modern Philology from the University of Siena, he held various precarious but interesting jobs in Italy, Malta, and Turkey. He published the poetry collection È stato l'amore la grossa fregatura and the novel Quando eravamo portieri di notte (Miraggi Edizioni).
Title: When we were night porters.
Publisher Miraggi editore, pp 160
Translation rights and film rights: r.vivivan literary agency
“A style that, despite its anagraphic and literary youth, is already adult, recognizable and highly personal [...] A free and unpretentious prose, so rare in our literary panorama, and which in fact has its roots, at least in my opinion, in the contemporary North American novel (from Fante to Bellow up to the Richler of Barney's Version ) [A] very successful example of a modern anti-hero set in a provincial reality which, however, beyond any cliché, appears more friendly and welcoming than gloomy and pitiful.”
– Andrea Vignini, ValdichianaOggi
“[A] novel with fresh, new and original prose [...] the melancholy is well balanced by peaks of irony and therapeutic cynicism.”
– Andrea Bressa, Panorama.it
“Intense and engaging.”
– Gabriele Ottaviani, Conventionals ,
When we were night porters in the shop window in the Sovrappensieri bookshop in Orvieto.
Tomas Bassini on Radio Effe to talk about When we were night porters .