After a serious illness of the author, this volume comes out which, once again, puts the accent on the territory and customs of Novara and its province. It is the story of an ordinary boy, of a little village of the first hill of Novara, where the vine and the alfalfa are cultivated for the fodder of the animals. A peaceful life, made up of work, dreams and everyday life.
This serenity is abruptly interrupted by the military service first and then by a war in which, in spite of himself, the protagonist, Piero, is involved and during which he will know the person with whom he will share the friendship of a lifetime.
"A history of other times", passes through a scrupulous sequence of details, the landscape and the inhabitants of a territory that has always been in the heart of the Author and that come with this work, once again remembered with affection and a bit of veiled nostalgia.