Is it worth living over a hundred years?

• With exceptional clarity and lucidity, the novel LO BREVE, with suspense, tension and unexpected twists, addresses a crucial and bordering concern that many readers question: the tempting claim to use artificial intelligence and biotechnology to prolong human life and delay as much as possible the arrival of death.  It invites the reader to reflect on a profound and defining theme of the human being: its finiteness.

• The plot addresses the emotional journey of the protagonist, Pedro Romero. His psychological arc for the experience of living as a refugee together with his parents in Icaria, a Greek island, during the Tragic Decade and the Absurd War; the three decades of research on how to delay cellular aging; the death of his wife for having applied to him the first version of his Youth Injection;  the journey of his parents through Antarctica; his ambition to have the formula of eternal youth to win the Prize of Vanguard in Biomedicine; the regional blocs' commercial dispute over controlling their discovery; the harassment and charges of corruption and murder of his wife by prosecutor Leo Soto; the trial and sentencing of a robotic judge with artificial intelligence; the rejection of his daughter; the platonic love of his assistant Lila; his seclusion and the gradual acceptance that the Youth Injection he discovered is limited because there are a thousand ways to die and that life is finally beautiful, but brief.

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