3 Metri Sopra ll Cielo (3 Meters Above The Sky)

Book: 3 Metri Sopra Il Cielo
Author: Federico Moccia
Pages: 395
Genre: Romance/Drama/Adventure
Setting: Rome,Italy 
 
People say that opposites attract,but what do they mean? Are they referring to physical appearance, character, personality etc.? In this book they are referring to all of the above.As it says in the back cover; "She is a romantic girl, he is a violent guy. Destiny one day made them meet, and that is when the real trouble began. The main characters are Babi and Stefano Mancini(Step).
Babi

• is a romantic and kind girl
• 17 years old
• Respects her parents(Rafaela and Claudio)
• Has a sister 2 years younger than her (Daniela)
• Does everything with her childhood best friend Pallina

Step

• has lived through a violent childhood
• as he grew older he met his to become "band" of gangsters
• go around in motorbikes
• likes Babi from the first moment he meets her
• best friend is Pollo

Throughout all the pages I read until now, a lot of things have hapened such as that the first time the two main characters met was while Babi was being driven to school, then a party occurs where they meet again and he brutally forces her to take a shower with him and stuffs the soap into her mouth. This party is also the one where Pollo and Pallina meet from which later on will become a love story. Step now only lives with his older brother who works in his own company. Babi starts hanging out with Step (however only because her best friend tricks her into thinking its cool since she finds the group of gangsters amazing, not only because one has now become her boyfriend), not only in restaurants where they eat for free but even at bike races which she finds horrifying. She experiences all these great adventures just for the fact that her parents go out every night letting her alone. She's heard it before, but doesn't know that Step is the hottest guy all around and anyone would want to be with him, but she finds him arrogant, violent, with no control and calls him a beast. Neither of them might know it, but it will soon become something more than friendship.

I chose to read this book because my dad bought it for me once because he himself had heard it was a good book, so when I started reading it I fell in love with it, the though through story makes it so realistic that you can imagine yourself in the girls place however at the same time so artificial and with so many dangers. After all I'm still trying to find the English hard cover version of the book, if I don't then I will probably have to switch books.

Award: “Torre di Castruccio” prize in 2004and was translated and sold in many countries, even Japan and Brazil