Author: Michael Ende Publisher: C & Loganesi Pages: 246 Among the ruins of an amphitheater on the edge of a big city, a strange little girl who finds refuge, fled from the orphanage, does not even know their age. The inhabitants of the area, which look at her curiously, said he called Momo. Before long the little girl wins the trust and sympathy of all: anyone who has a problem or it is requested by the other to go to Momo, who has a great quality: he knows how to pay attention to anyone in the world. It does not give advice and does not comment, only to listen with such intensity that the other person is led to seek its own answers to the questions, at the very moment when they should be asking. The naturalness of Momo has the power to pacify the souls in torment, to quell quarrels, to create harmony where it is coming a day meno.Finché agents of a so-called Savings Time - which have launched an offensive throughout the world to get people to save time, saying it will be returned with interest at the age of sixty years of age - are also presented in the microcosm consists of Momo and his friends. All fall into the trap laid by the 'Grey Lady', and Momo finds himself having to face alone the secret society that organized the massive fraud that never hatched against humanity. Not quite alone: \u200b\u200bhis side will be Cassiopeia, the wise turtle, and Hora Master, the "guardian" of the time, extremely fascinating characters that tells Momo the way to save mankind and that to the reader to penetrate the deep metaphor of 'existence behind the story "extraordinary" by Michael Ende
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