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Massimo Marini
Published by Diogenes as Massimo Marini
Original Title: Massimo Marini
From the son of a guest-worker to a powerful building contractor – the comet-like rise and fall of Massimo Marini. Smuggled into Switzerland in a suitcase as a baby, he was kept hidden by his parents for eight years so they would not lose their work permit. His father slogged his way up to the echelons of successful business-men – all for Massimo's sake so that he should have it easier. Massimo's life does not follow the smoothest of courses and is peppered with incident, peaks and troughs: from Italian immigrant child to big cheese in Zurich society; from protestor outside the opera house to opera house patron; from existential philosopher to building contractor; from the left to the right; from abysses to glittering heights; from the south to the north. Until he meets the woman who will be the crowning glory of his happiness – and its destroyer.
A wide-reaching panorama of society and the portrait of a sparkly, eccentric personality.
»Social criticism and family drama rolled into one – and all of the highest standard.«
OÖNachrichten, Linz
»Rolf Dobelli has dived down deep into the recent history of Switzerland, and brought up a dazzling tale of one immigrant's life.«
General-Anzeiger, Bonn
»A family saga that few can match, and told in an exciting and dramatic way.«
Voralberger Nachrichten, Schwarzach
»Rolf Dobelli has given us a masterpiece – gripping, informative and unputdownable.«
Bücher, Berlin
»Once again Rolf Dobelli shows just how good he is at finding exactly the right words to say what he wants to say.«
Anzeiger, St. Gallen
»A page turner, a book you can't put down until - unfortunately – you find yourself at the end.«
Swiss Magazine, Basel
»It takes the reader's breath away. There is nothing that doesn't exist in this world of ours. And reading about it is fun.«
Passauer Neue Presse
»Dobelli's prose is compact, clear, precise.«
Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin