Following books like The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, the comparatively snappily titled Me And You continues the theme of novels written from the viewpoints of children with varying degrees of Asperger's-like conditions.
Ammaniti's speciality has always been the psychology of Italian teenagers, but he's outdone himself here with the creation of Lorenzo, a 14-year-old whose condition is not so severe as to prevent him going to a regular school, but who still has a great deal of difficulty fitting in.
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