The Third Door – Paperback

Gio wakes up in a room that is not his, with a Van Gogh and a Mondrian on the walls, and remembers nothing. A blond girl tells him he is on a spaceship traveling at six times the speed of light, and that tomorrow he will start teaching yoga. To find out whether he is a man or a machine, he pricks his finger. The alarms go off.

Then he wakes up in a police cell, in an Italian city, where he works as a private investigator: poor, unlucky, with a Mini that lives at the mechanic’s and an old Harley that leaks oil. A psychiatrist pays him to find a girl who, as far as the State is concerned, does not exist, and who talks about weight as if it were a boarding pass. The trail leads to a valley with a lake, and to a community shut away behind a gate with an iron circle.

And then, on a motorcycle on a mountain hairpin, a glare in his eyes, and Gio is somewhere else: in a future where machines do everything, nobody works and a Narrator tells what happened. He has a gentle wife who does not understand his thoughts, two children looking for freedom where the machines cannot reach, and a Harley that never breaks down.

Three lives, lived one at a time, never knowing when he will pass from one to the next. A novel of mystery and adventure, ironic and full of tension, that asks what remains of a man when everything around him changes: his breath, perhaps. And, in the end, a door to choose.