About this ebook
Roberto Lucci first sees Alessandra when he is ten years old, standing in a school choir in Milan.
One glance is enough.
What begins as innocent fascination slowly hardens into something darker—an obsession that follows him through adolescence, loneliness, humiliation, sexual awakening, and the dangerous freedoms of 1960s Italy.
While Roberto struggles to understand desire, he is drawn into a world of decadent parties, manipulation, emotional cruelty, and reckless privilege. Girls like the seductive Yulia Polansky teach him how easily longing can become weakness. But no matter how far he drifts, Alessandra remains fixed at the center of his inner life: unattainable, mysterious, and impossible to forget.
As the years pass, Roberto’s fixation deepens into a passion that threatens to consume everything around him—including his sense of self.
Dark, intimate, and unsettling, An Italian Obsession is a coming-of-age novel about desire, memory, vulnerability, and the dangerous stories we build around the people we love.
About the author
Kfir was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. He acquired his love for the English language from his father, a former U.S. soldier and WWII veteran, a voracious reader and a prolific writer.
With a PhD in chemical engineering and a long family history that he needs to live up to, Kfir work as a patent attorney and heads the patent law firm that was established by his great-grandfather in Milan, Italy, in 1869. Kfir lives in Omer, Israel, with his full-time partner, Esther, their four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis.
You can read about Kfir's books on his website - www.kfirluzzatto.com. He loves them all, but never had greater fun than when working on “HAVE BOOK WILL TRAVEL”, a YA fantasy that he wrote together with his son, Yonatan.
