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On his final train journey to Maratea, Antonio meets Eliana , a young university professor. Their conversation serves as the bridge between Antonio’s childhood memories and his present journey to "say goodbye to life".

Tren a Maratea is a short novel by Catalan author and journalist , published in March 2022 by Editorial Proa . Tren a Maratea - Vicenç Villatoro i Lamolla - h...

Villatoro has noted that the story was inspired by a trip he took to Maratea to research his family history (his maternal ancestors were named Lammoglia ), though the characters themselves are fictional. On his final train journey to Maratea, Antonio

The novel is set in 1973 , during a real-world cholera outbreak in Naples that has the city under partial lockdown. Villatoro has noted that the story was inspired

The book is available through major retailers like Amazon and Grup62 . Vicenç Villatoro publica “Tren a Maratea”

The book explores the tension between official history and personal memory, the inevitable proximity of death, and the search for closure.

The story follows , an elderly man who returns to his hometown of Maratea in southern Italy after 30 years in exile. He had originally left the village the day after the victory of World War II, having fought with the partisans . Key Narrative Elements: