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Until Morning M D

Until Morning is a story about different nationalities, habits, customs, common places and stereotypes experienced by a bunch of university students. Sons of the Erasmus generation, these young adults travel across Europe, from the gold southern beaches of Sicily to the appealing quietness of the northern regions, like Holland (Groningen) and Finland (Helsinki and Tampere), passing through the astonishing beauty of a medieval Tuscany (Siena). Love and sex, hate and frustrations, delusions and aspirations are challenged by the omnipresent intercultural diversity, which affects all the interactions and human relations between the characters. The story is told making use of multiple perspectives that ultimately reveal a complex picture. The reader is given a set of fragments that must be put together in a mosaic of complicated affairs, struggles, dares, and expectations. Until Morning is eventually a lighthearted account of young people's lives, but, above all, it is a novel that tells how prejudices and biases are hard to die in a not very integrated and "double speed" Europe. In this novel, North and South are not simply a geographical diversity but, most of the time, a source of social disparity and clashes generated by a different way of meaning many fundamental themes, such as love, sympathy and solidarity.