Tomas Bassini
Tomas Bassini was born in 1985. After graduating in Modern Philology at the University of Siena, he carried out various precarious but interesting jobs in Italy, Malta and Turkey. He has published the collection of poems Love was the big rip-off and the novel When we were night porters (Miraggi Edizioni).
Title: When we were night porters.
Publisher Miraggi publisher, pp 160
Translation rights and film rights: r.vivivan literary agency
" A style that, despite the age and literary youth, is already an adult, recognizable and very personal [...] A free and not bogus prose, so rare in the Italian 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, out of any cliché, appears more sympathetic and welcoming than dark and stepmother. "
- Andrea Vignini, Valdichiana Today
"[A] novel with a 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 .