"Here I Should Stay": a book monologue about Italian social and political life (video)

The reader of "Here I Should Stay" follows Bregolise's thoughts, lives with his emotions, and gives in to his feelings. During those days, many things happen in Bregolise's life, but one event becomes crucial, and he makes a decision that is incomprehensible and unexpected for everyone.

“Hello everyone, I'm Giovanni Doccini, the title of my new novel is "Here I Should Stay". The hero of the novel is a man named Luca Bregolise, a dyer, he lives in the suburbs of Perugia, where I was born, live and work until today. Luca Bregolise joined public groups at a young age. His father was a communist. The events occur in Perugia, but in reality, in his head”.

Doccini analyzes the complicated socio-political situation in the country through Brego's extensive monologue. It turns out that people want to live without immigrants and the crisis is caused by the institutional left. "This novel is also about my beautiful birthplace, the region of Umbria, whose public life has recently undergone unexpected events. There are a lot of public contexts in the novel, but we must not forget that this is first and foremost a personal story about complex, conflicted people trying to do something new."

Many immigrants have arrived in Perugia in the last ten years. Peaceful city life is a thing of the past. Now there are endless robberies, fights, and noise. The old residents are concerned, dissatisfied, and angry. This is why the right-wing forces won the local elections in 2018 in the city of people with left-wing views.

And here everything turns upside down in the head of the forty-year-old dyer, who constantly hums the song of Mahmoud, an Egyptian immigrant who won the Sanremo competition twice in 2019.