The literary sensation from the USA! This book is a narrative natural phenomenon - a novel about a fast young woman on a motorcycle, her romances in the New York art underground of the late seventies, and her political entanglements in Italy during the Red Brigades. 1975: The amateur motorcycle racer Reno (her nickname, after her birthplace) arrives in Manhattan after a record attempt at the Great Salt Flats to immerse herself in the creatively exploding artist scene of SoHo. In a world where the boundaries between life and art blur, she encounters a group of dreamers, revolutionaries, and visionaries: among them is Sandro Valera, a successful conceptual artist and eccentric heir to an Italian tire and motorcycle dynasty, whom she falls in love with. But during a visit to his family at their summer residence on Lake Como, she gets caught up in...