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serenlibrità

Novel · September 2026 · in Italian

Serenlibrità, the novel

Thirty chapters, two neighbourhoods, a book that travels. It was written by Alberto Galassi, the same person who built this site, and it came out on 15 September 2026. The novel is in Italian.

The cover of the novel: the Serenlibrità map pin above two overlapping circles on a squared map
Author
Alberto Galassi
Published
15 September 2026
Length
161 pages, thirty chapters
Language
Italian only
ISBN
979-8174541702

Paperback on Amazon Kindle edition on Amazon

Both links go to Amazon.it and open in a new tab. You will find the price there: the shop sets it, and written here it would risk going stale.

What it is about

“Serenlibrità is a novel about what is already around us and we do not see: the people we brush past for years on the same pavement, the things we put off until fixing them no longer costs anything, the tiny distance between two lives that have never touched.”

Alberto Galassi, from the book's blurb (our translation)

The story moves between two neighbourhoods and follows a book as it changes hands. We will not say more, and not to be mysterious: it is thirty chapters in 161 pages, easy to read in short stretches, and the rest belongs to whoever reads it.

What it has to do with this site

The novel grew out of a real project, and this is it. Serenlibrità, the site you are on, shows the books that people keep at home near you — as an area, never as an address — and lets you ask to borrow them.

The underlying idea is the same on both sides: the distance between two people who live a few blocks apart is much smaller than it looks. The site tries to shorten it for real, one book at a time; the novel tells it as a story.

The novel is not a manual for the site, and you do not need to have read it to use it. Serenlibrità stays free for those who lend and for those who borrow; if you want to see how it works, it is all in How it works.

Two formats

It comes as a paperback (161 pages) and as a Kindle edition. It is self-published, with no publishing house behind it: for now you will find it on Amazon.

When you have finished it

A novel about a book that travels ought to travel too. If you buy the paper copy, once you have read it put it on your shelf here on Serenlibrità: someone near you will be able to ask to borrow it, and the book will do what it describes.

Questions

Do I need to read the novel to use the site?

No. They share a name and an idea, but the site works on its own and is free.

Is there an English edition?

Not for now: the novel has been published in Italian only.

Can I borrow it on Serenlibrità?

If someone near you has put it on their shelf, yes: it shows up like any other book, and you ask for it the same way.

Who is the author?

Alberto Galassi, who came up with Serenlibrità and keeps it running. You can read about him and the project in About us.