Pirulin is eight years old, with not much money and two grandparents that are a little bit deaf. He sleeps and dreams the whole day, he is always quite while everybody around speaks in an unknown language.

But... in order to speak with clouds and glow worms you don’t need any words. It’s easy, you can imagine a whole world, just for you: a sunbeam that's made of cream, an orchard of three lemon trees and a fig, prickly pears on the cotton and a gossiping goose.

About the Author

Davide Longo is a writer, a documentary filmmaker and teacher. His novels Un mattino a Irgalem (Grinzane Opera Prima Prize 2001 and Via Po Prize) and Il Mangiatore di pietre (Città di Bergamo Prize and Viadana Prize 2004) have been published by Marcos y Marcos. This is his third tale published by Corraini, after La vita a un tratto (2006) and Lettera prima (2007).