Tommaso Biondo climbed Pizzo Sella and never came down. Since then, that scraggly mountain scarred by illegal building has started to green again. A miracle? When his brother Andrea, thirty years later, receives a plaque for the services rendered by Tommaso to the city, his words revive the Banda dell’Orto Botanico, the extraordinary summer adventure of five kids from the suburbs, and the war between Custodi and Mangiacemento, between civic sense and greed, between those who plant trees and those who instead build palaces.

• Visit the page of Mio fratello che parla con gli alberi on the publisher Emons’ website.