Antonio's parents divorced long ago, and his father, a brilliant mathematician, didn't play a significant role in his life. Everything changed when Antonio was diagnosed with epilepsy. Father and son travel to Marseille to see a doctor who recommends a complex provocative test — in simple terms, staying awake for forty-eight hours.

The characters must walk around the colorful seaside city for two days and nights, and for the first time in their lives talk to each other about poetry, family, romantic experience, about mathematics, death, talent, redemption, and, of course, about love.

The novel's title is a reference to an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: 'In the dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning.' These nights flood the pages with uneven moonlight, as in a neorealist film. A journey on foot that won't let you fall asleep — unhurried and deafeningly sad.
Kirkus Reviews

Author: Gianrico Carofiglio
Publishing House: Polyandria No Age
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 191
Cover type: hardback
Translator: Ekaterina Darovskaya
Country of origin: Italy
Age group: 18+