Three Horses

“A man's life lasts as long as that of three horses,” says an insight learned by the novel's narrator, an Italian with keen senses and a deep soul who works as a gardener and whose constant companion is old books. Three horses - three lives. The first, in Argentina, under the sign of the military dictatorship and the Falklands War, of the flight and the intoxication of the first beloved, “thrown with bound hands to the bottom of the ocean”. The second, in Italy, marked by a hot, mature love for a woman who “beds men for money” and by the wisdom of an African and his lesson in gratitude. And the third - he is about to...

Eri de Luca presents a multi-layered work in lapidary style, with biblical references and symbolic allusions, saturated with scents and flavours, imbued with a passion for books, in which past and present are chased and intertwined, memories in the present tense, different geographical and cultural spaces, where every gesture is a sacred ritual. A novel of love, of battles, of existential choices and the role of fate in human life.