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“We survive in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.” – Pier Paolo Pasolini
What reasons can there be beyond the reasons of love? Now married to successful businessman, Achille Lombardo, Julia appears to have it all until her she embarks on an ill-fated affair with Arturo, and her ex-pat adventure morphs into the crime of passion.
The second part of the Mezzogiorno Trilogy, Accidental Death of a Terrorist tells the story of Julia and Arturo’s forbidden affair as it becomes entwined with the fate of Marco, a naïve Arab medical student they have befriended. Told as a series of flashbacks and vignettes, the novel opens up the shutter on the hidden world of passion and deceit that lurks in the sleepy towns of Southern Italy, and begs the question: can love triumph over circumstance?
“What has happened?” – “There was a gas explosion next door in the salumeria. Now, Doctor Noviello is selling his flat.” – “Rompiscatole, what am I going to do with this box?” One day, about a year prior to this conversation in front of some scaffolding in via Carulli, two boys were on their way …
There is a fine line between the high wire and a disappearing act. Mr Kite When she arrived at the airport, her husband was standing on the curb with his suitcase and mobile phone. She waved and called him. He looked up and saw her. Smiling through his conversation – he started walking towards the …
Oh! Halcyon Days – Now wars are ending!You shall find where’er you sailTritons all the while attendingWith a kind and gentle gale On the urging of Mr. Handouchi, a merchant banker, Avocado Cassa had flown, at his own expense, to a reception given by the Prince of Q. When he arrived at the reception, all …
The new prisoner Seiko decided he did not want the top bunk, which was above the Mute’s. He turned to the Mute and informed him that they were changing places. Then, he picked up the Mute’s blanket and gave it to him. The Mute, however, put the blanket back on his own bunk. “Are you …
In the casino of the cruiser a billet was handed to me on a silver tray. When I found Q’s cabin, I realised I was drowning in bathwater. The bus took her up past the cemetery and through the industrial estate. The road was full of potholes and when the bus went over the bumps …
It is the stranger in you to whom I am now making this – I admit – clumsy appeal. The businessman Achille Lombardo had taken his wife on an all-expense paid trip to Switzerland. After their meal with esteemed colleagues and friends, she made her excuses and left him in the lobby. About fifteen minutes …
Although you are in trouble and everyone is against you, I want you to know that I am, exclusively, on your side. On Behalf of the Good Egg Outside the lawyer’s office a man was kneeling on the pavement, with his arms above his head holding a plastic cup. Rodriguez fumbled in his pocket, put …
The man could not remember anything about his life except that he was once a cook in South Africa. The hospital eventually traced his brother who came to see him. His brother shakes him by the hand, gives him thirty Euros, then says goodbye. (From Doctor Tom Tom’s case studies in Amnesia) When Arturo left …