Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band

[citation needed] As of 1999, the novel had sold over one million copies in Italy and had been published in 23 countries throughout Europe, in the US, Japan, Korea and South America.

[3][4] In 2024 Enrico Brizzi announced the sequel of the novel[5] Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band tells the story of the relationship between Alex, a 17-year-old rebel, and Aidi (which sounds like the German name Heidi), a girl who enters his life out of the blue one Sunday with a phone call.

She asks about a poetry book and they end up talking about their projects and aspirations.

Nonetheless, they maintain a relationship that, though not full-blown love, is stronger than mere friendship.

Meanwhile, Alex takes a position in opposition to bourgeois society, rejecting the commonplace life that everyone expects him to be leading in the future ("a car, two children, a wife and a business consultant") and befriending Martino, the son of a rich family but an "outcast" like Alex himself.