
Photo: Maria Pozzozengaro
Title: The art of getting up
Publisher: Marsilio editori, pp 308
Translation and film rights: r.vivian literary agency
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Salvatore Falzone
Salvatore Falzone was born in Alessandria in 1998. Surrounded by the typical fog and the typical Alexandrian greyness, he would never be able to live without his best friends who are close to him both when he is depressed and when he is so euphoric and full of ideas that he has to throw down. a story to force. An avid reader, he devours everything, both classic and contemporary: when he is down in the mood, he enters a library only to be greeted by the scent of paper and leaf through something. Eventually, though, he buys more books than he reads.
When he writes, Salvatore feels alive as never before, he knows it's what he always wanted to do and what he really likes, and no one can stop him.
In 2018 his debut novel, The art of getting up (Marsilio Editori) was released.


"The authentic and poignant debut of Salvatore Falzone, who recounts his battle against an insidious and dark evil in 304 pages."
“The author is 20 years old. His debut with Marsilio is one that leaves you speechless. Dedicated to those who say that only crap is published, you my dear ones look for little and badly in my opinion. [...] 'The art of getting up' is one of those novels that mark the literary years. "
- Morgan Palmas
" The art of getting up [...] tells of a boy's battle against an insidious and dark evil, while at the same time dealing with the bewilderment and frailty of today's adolescents."
- Carla Dalmasso, ilLibraio.it
“[Falzone] tells of a boy's war against depression, bewilderment and fear. A message of hope and also a way to try to learn more about situations that can happen to everyone, but which often remain hidden until they become irremediable. "
- Andrea Bressa, Panorama.it
“It was since 1995, when the first Italian edition of Jim Carroll's The basketball diaries [...] came into my hands that I never happened to read such an intense [...] intimate and ruthless book. Intimate, because Salvatore bares himself with total honesty - which in certain passages makes the skin crawl - and merciless, because he doesn't discount anyone, starting with himself. [...] A book that I recommend to teenagers, parents, educators and anyone who loves reading good; to all, in short. Because - I hadn't said it yet - it's not only intense, intimate and merciless: it's also very well written. "
- Marcello Nucciarelli
"Salvatore Falzone has put 'black and white' some of the deepest emotions of his life, with a strength and a delicacy that can be misleading about his young age [...] It is an almost confidential book and that induces many reflections, full of situations and dynamics, internal and not only, that animate the days of today; pages in which the reader will be able to absorb the content in a different way according to their degree of maturity. "
"A novel that tears, moves, fails, cannot in any way leave us indifferent [...] Falzone tells of the insidious evil that goes beyond any family or social condition, that evil that can lead to gestures extreme because nothing and no one can make you feel better, even if family and friends are close [...] An authentic novel, which hurts, but you can't stop reading. "

The art of getting up 21st in the sales ranking of the Feltrinelli bookshop in Alessandria.