Fòcara di sangue è un romanzo di viaggio e di frontiera ambientato in una parte del Sud Italia facilmente riconoscibile per alcuni temi ricorrenti, come la Xylella (il “batterio killer” che ha fatto strage di ulivi in Puglia) o la fòcara dello stesso titolo, cioè l’enorme pira in onore di Sant’Antonio che viene accesa a metà gennaio in provincia di Lecce. Ne sono al centro Mirko,...

THE THREE NIGHTS OF ABUNDANCE Calabria (south Italy) in the mid 80s. Fosco is a village perched upon a rock right on the sea. To reach the beach, you need to venture along a wooden stairway. Irene Rusto is fourteen and she always holds in her hands an orange notebook on which she draws her particular way of seeing the reality. Among the stern looks of the families, she lives her first love...

Isidoro Siffotin was born in the small house of Mattinella, a tiny village in the South of Italy. He develops a miraculous skill inherited from his father Quirino (the cross-eyed communist poet inventor of words), who writes love letters to Johann Sebastian Bach and President Pertini; and from Stella, his mother, a pasta-maker who prepares curtains of tagliatelle and bears a secret. Which special...

José, a boy from Albanuma, wakes up on a dune of an infinite sand sea. He doesn’t know why he is there, but starts walking aimlessly until he hears a girl screaming: it's Maria. Her father has just turned into a giant scorpion -a «jauriyashka»- and is attacking her. This is how this new age bildungsroman with pre-Columbus reminiscences starts. It is set in a devilish desert that reminds...

Blurb di Pier Aldo Rovatti, filosofo italiano: Con una scrittura tersa e profonda il romanzo di Ada Murolo scopre proustianamente il mondo meraviglioso dell'infanzia a Palizzi, un universo di forti sensazioni che è anche uno spaccato della società italiana del dopoguerra." Pier Aldo Rovatti" Può in un libro non succedere nulla di eclatante eppure tenerci incollati alle pagine? Il mare di...

"Alois Vogel is the guard in an imaginary Expressionist Museum in Koblenz. Over the years, he has watched over its halls and corridors. It is there that he has learnt to observe the paintings and everything that surrounds them, and to notice even the most trivial detail by paying just the slightest attention. Based on this simplest of plots, Pablo d’Ors constructs "an epopoeia of trivialities...