Three o'clock in the morning : a novel

Author

Gianrico Carofiglio

Call Number

• FICTION CARO (CEN)

Edition

First HarperVia edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.

Physical Description

182 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Antonio is a boy on the cusp of adulthood. His father, once a brilliant mathematician, hasn't figured much in his life since the divorce from his mother. But then Antonio is diagnosed with epilepsy and a hope for a cure takes father and son to a doctor in Marseille, where French old world charm meets a modern city of bohemians. There they are advised to spend two days and two nights together without sleep in order to trigger - and resolve the medication for - his condition. In this beautiful, gritty, and charming foreign city, Antonio and his father walk the streets and strain for conversation - until the late nights and caffeine-imbued adventures lead them to a series of unexpected people (and trysts) that connect them together for the first time. As the two cover poetry, family, sex, math, death, and dreams, their story becomes a mesmerizing 48-hour microcosm of a lifetime relationship as they discover much about illusions and regret, about talent and redemption, and, most of all, about love"--

Notes

'Originally published as Le tre del mattino in Italy in 2017 by Giulio Einaudi editore; First published in English in Australia in 2021 by Text Publishing."--Title page verso.