Il nano più alto del mondo

Piccolo Tarzan is a dwarf; he is 1.25 meters tall. His number, in which he boxes against an orangutan, is the main attraction of the Harlem circus. He enjoys success and the love of Gaby, another dwarf who works with him. But one day Piccolo comes down with a strange illness and he starts to grow. In one fell blow, because of the possibility of becoming "normal," he loses everything he had struggled so hard to achieve. 

"I read the short story Gaby la Nana by Giovanni Arpino and was struck by it because it told about being different from the opposite point of view - the fear of 'being normal,' after having accepted and coexisted with one's handicap to the point of  even finding happiness. Piccolo's good luck in being given a second chance actually destroys the certainties he had achieved and forces him to face the unknown, a different life." (F. Amato)