A tale of ambivalent friendship and obsession with a fashionable drifter named Nicola in the fashionable city named Milan.

In the chosen land -- a Milan full of bored rich people too dumb to know themselves -- a man longs to know Nicola, a cruel and ineffable hustler. What's it like to really 'go home' with Nicola? I could not turn away from the answer -- trashy and female, dangerously hot. Nicola, Milan reads like a part of the secret literature that it wishes to penetrate. -- Tamara Faith Berger, author of Maidenhead "Nicola, Milan is a ravishing and delirious search through the blinkered and fraught consciousness of a man who has invested far too much of himself in someone else -- or who he thinks that person is. This compact book seethes with ambiguous sexuality, while an enticing darkness constantly beckons. Lodovico Pignatti Morano's arresting debut gazes unflinchingly into the most gnarled and obsessive crevices of the human mind." -- Peter Mountford, author of A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism and The Dismal Science