Aguamala

It rains heavily in Naples and within a few hours the ravages of the water are felt in the city, some buildings collapse, large chasms open up in the streets. As if that were not enough, strange phenomena begin to take place: ghostly voices come out of the battlemented fortress of the city, the five-lira coins emit a sweet melody, the sea overflows its banks and its waters follow the trail of the children who stroll, three dolls threadbare appear abandoned in mysterious places... Everything seems to indicate that the rain is the harbinger of an imminent even more extraordinary event that will forever change the very meaning of life. Published with immense success in 1977 but never republished until the author's death, this choral and disturbing novel, which critics have considered one of the most beautiful stories ever written about Naples, has become over the decades a work of cult awaited by generations of readers.