“I was born on the first day of school, and grew up and became old in just two hundred days.”

And so Leo story begins. Just as The Fault in Our Stars captivated readers’ hearts, the Italian bestseller White Like Milk, Red Like Blood will draw you in with its quirky characters, and their bittersweet love story.

Alessandra D’Avenia’s novel has sold over a million copies in Europe, and was made into a film in April 2013. But don’t think of it as Italian: it’s universal, and a wonderfully unique and charming story.

Leo’s story is one of love and loss, and also of ordinary life: he’s an ordinary sixteen-year-old: loves to hang out with his friends, play soccer, and zip around on his “Bat-scooter.” Then a new philosophy teacher arrives who encourages his students to live intensely, and to follow their dreams. Leo's dream is a girl called Beatrice, who he thinks is pure paradise. And then there’s Silvia—Leo’s friend, the anchor who holds him together when he learns that Beatrice has leukemia. The depression that threatens to drown him is white like snow—it is Beatrice who is red like blood, the color of life.

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