Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Marco Orsini is young, Florentine, and fluent in borrowed truths.Raised among beauty and haunted by the writers who shaped him, he leaves Florence believing that somewhere in the world, life will finally confirm what literature has promised him. With a camera, a suitcase, and a private notebook, he begins moving across countries: Russia, Japan, India, Turkey, Jordan, Morocco, America, and Spain, searching for proof that love, desire, shame, beauty, and loneliness can be understood if only he looks closely enough.But the world does not behave like a book.Through fleeting passions, unexpected friendships, private humiliations, silences, cities, bodies, betrayals, and moments of startling tenderness, Marco begins to discover the distance between describing life and actually living it. The notebook he carries becomes more than a record of travel. It becomes a confession of the selves he performs, the truths he avoids, and the man he is slowly becoming.The Dialect of Touch is an intimate literary novel about desire, distance, literature, and the difficult art of becoming honest.
