«Emanuele Trevi arouses in the reader the emotion of an aesthetic revelation charged with wonder and wonder».
Livia Manera, Corriere della Sera

In this memorable and beautiful book, winner of the prestigious 2021 Strega Award, Emanuele Trevi presents us with the profile of two friends, writers like him: Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera, as different from each other as their deaths were. Rocco was relentlessly pursued by disenchantment; his existence and his writing were a torturous and strict form of suffering and his days ended abruptly due to a freak accident. Pia Pera was impulsive, sensitive, idealistic, and a degenerative disease progressively took away her autonomy before killing her. Both had their inner demons, their opacities, those shadow areas that not even the friendly eye can or knows how to reach. When the time has come to remember them, what distance must the writer, the friend, take to do them justice?

Dos vidas is a literary work of the first order that stands as the most emotional celebration of friendship, of the close and unrepeatable ties that unite us with other beings over time. In the attempt to confront the word with transience and oblivion, Trevi manages to make literature of life and life of literature and reminds us that there is no better tomb than the heart of a friend.