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De Filippo
Nursing home resident in Pozzuoli who believes it’s 1966
De Filippo lives in the nursing home in Pozzuoli. Matteo Rinaldi describes him to Lena Voss in a single sentence, without looking at the list: a man who believes it is 1966 and who stays calm as long as nobody corrects him. His son lives three streets away. In an emergency, Matteo says, the son will be at the door before the first bus arrives, and he won’t leave without his father. For Lena, De Filippo becomes a line on the list that demands more than a seat. On a night when he is pulled out of bed, someone would have to keep correcting him, or someone he knows would have to stay with him the whole time.
Connected to
- Matteo RinaldiThe nursing home’s daily routine all runs through him
- Lena VossOceanographer at the ICRU in Hamburg, following a falling line
- Naples and PozzuoliA city in a volcano’s hollow, on ground that’s rising
Spoiler-free. This describes the starting point of the book named, without its major twists or resolutions.