An Italian title and atmosphere frame two novels written in Polish. In the first, Valentin Redar has built a successful life between Poland and Italy, but divorce and a sequence of apparently reasonable decisions gradually distance him from his sons. The series explores emotional withdrawal, fatherhood and the losses concealed by an enviable life. Dolce Vita. Cuore Nero 2.0 continues this psychological territory, where silence and consequences make an apparently ideal existence less secure. Begin with Dolce Vita. Cuore Nero, then read 2.0.
Valentin Redar has built a successful life between Poland and Italy. After divorce, apparently reasonable decisions gradually distance him from his sons in a psychological novel about withdrawal, fatherhood and loss.
A Polish-language continuation set in an Italian atmosphere. An apparently ideal life offers less shelter once its silences and consequences have become impossible to overlook.