Artificial intelligence can predict the future. Authentic ignorance can fix the present.Daniele Visentin—known to his four unimpressed fans as Rdoso—has officially retired from his disastrous rap career. Armed with zero qualifications, an old Tata pick-up truck still bearing the words Codegon Social Dairy, and an unwavering belief in his own genius, he reinvents himself as an "unarmed" private detective.Operating off-the-books in the Itali...

Can a stubborn weed learn to dream?In the sun-drenched hills of Sardinia, a tiny, prickly weed named Cagaranzu grows everywhere—in the cracks of the asphalt, on old stone walls, and between windshield wipers. Nobody cares about it, until a marketing-savvy mayor decides to transform it into a luxury gourmet product: the prestigious "Heart of Tulo."But when high demand forces the town to call in a slightly eccentric scientist to gene...

A real estate agent's mistake. A clumsy secretary. A duplicate appointment—actually, quintuple appointment—to view the same empty apartment at Via Manzoni 25, extension 42.Wednesday, March 15, 11:00 a.m.: five strangers find themselves in the same empty apartment. The real estate agent, embarrassed, doesn't show up. In his place, he sends the cleaning lady, who speaks little Italian and knows even less about the property. No chairs, no furniture: just scratched parquet floors, high ...

The perfect child is a project. But love is off-spec.Gloria Sutton is 38, an Mit-educated operations genius, and a permanent fixture on the Forbes list. She doesn't do "accidents." She doesn't do "emotions." And she certainly doesn't do partners—they're a waste of billable hours.When Gloria decides to have a child, she approaches motherhood like a corporate merger. The criteria are set: ten pages of bullet points, a $250,000 contract, and a donor selected w...

"Damn dentists" is the debut novel by Leo Duca: a sharp-edged psychological thriller centered on a man who lost everything and decided to take back something far darker than money.Roberto Salinas was a provincial accountant with a steady clientele and a quiet life. For twenty years, he kept the ledgers—and the secrets—of seven dentists: inflated turnovers, offshore accounts, and undeclared earnings. He knew them better than they knew each other. He protected them. ...

Cagaranzu, Chat e Fuffa Rap is a collection of satirical stories where the lines between reality, the absurd, and irony become very thin.In these pages, you'll encounter:a mysterious Sardinian plant capable of growing anywhere and throwing an entire country into crisisRdoso, the rapper the world didn't deserve (or maybe it did)an artificial intelligence forced to endure humanity's most unlikely demandslives suspended in front of a door th...

Phil lives in a residential neighborhood on the northern outskirts, where the houses are all disturbingly identical. His isn't a compelling story, but a meticulous compendium of boredom and conformism elevated to a way of life. Filippo is the "good guy" every parent would want: he has a high school diploma, a resume-building job at an air conditioning company (where research and development is a purely fictitious activity), and an almost religious dedication to washing his diesel car every...

Can you make a perfect Neapolitan Parmigiana using only pure imagination and a 71-euro microphone?Giovanni Postiglione used to be an assistant chef. Now, he's an unemployed father of two teenagers, facing a fridge full of empty space and a table piled with overdue bills. To survive in an expensive world, he hooks up a microphone bought on Amazon and creates Radio Sugo 102 FM Stereo—a web radio station where he pretends to cook magnificent dishes, m...

Welcome to Dimwell, a village that doesn't appear on any map because no one's ever bothered to draw it.In Dimwell, the streets are dotted with potholes as deep as sinks, and nothing ever happens... except when Tony and his best friend Pip are involved. Then, something always happens.From sophisticated cats sent into the future aboard a washing machine drum, bizarre Devil hunts with hairspray and garlic necklaces, and daring escapes from strict nuns' boarding...

Inside Tico's belly, a wild, crazy factory runs all on its own!At school, the bullies call him "The Poop Kid." But 9-year-old Tico has a secret: he has realized that his classmates are using as an insult the greatest, most perfect, most hilarious miracle in all of nature. With his trusty blue notebook, Tico becomes the official cartographer of his own digestive system, mapping a hidden zoo inside his body where unlikely animals work as a team.Meet the crew:...

In the courtyard of 14 Manzoni Street, three things are guaranteed: pigeons on the ledge, a scrawny ficus tree, and Mrs. Voltolina—eighty-three years old with an unshakeable certainty: her neighbors are aliens disguised as humans.Armed with a red pencil, a notebook, and a fresh carrot (because no real reptilian can resist fresh vegetables), Voltolina is ready for anything. Her daily neighborhood surveillance takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of Little Ludo,...

Il lavoro di Francesco Cubeddu è probabilmente il più noioso del mondo: fare la guardia notturna in un'azienda informatica piena di computer silenziosi. Per far passare il tempo, Francesco ha un passatempo segreto: leggere le richieste più assurde e strampalate che gli utenti fanno a "Chat", la celebre Intelligenza Artificiale.Tra persone che chiedono come dimagrire mangiando solo pizza e utenti convinti che il proprio iPhone si ricarichi nel microonde, Francesco d...