Of Morgan Palmas
The word for "The land of my soul" by Massimo Carlotto: ipercoinvolgente .
Pages 153, Editions and / o.
"I have cancer," said Benjamin. "I know.
"I wonder what's the other way?", "Nothing."
I listened. Then Maureen and I accompanied him to the airport.
was born in Via Novara 125, Milan, before the declaration of war by Mussolini. So hungry. The mother is a common activity, the father a night watchman. I remember: 1951, Tuberculosis, Torino. Time flies, fourteen years, first sexual experience, slap father of John. In 1956, employment as a gardener, the whole family moved to Ponte Tresa, in the mountains on the border with Switzerland, not far from Lugano. Here begins the adventure of life ol'avventura of life, he meets the world of contraband cigarettes, coffee, gold, furs, with bricolle, but not limited to, the ways we learn in the field.
Sann's meeting with Ricky, at that time, it appears that awareness of his ignorance, in the third grade prevents a certain freedom, as long as you do not know a guy like Henry. Reading opens up worlds previously unthinkable. The world of
shoulder inserts consists of gestures, rituals, words, silences. But he has ideas and wants to go further, not content. Here's the pig, which is not the pig, well understood ... time flies, summer 1967, he met Sonia and dedication "Every morning." Get engaged and grant, never completely.
smuggling sea is another thing, Sicily, Venice, comes to Mikrolimano, east of Piraeus.
"The underworld is like this: until the day before you're the best and most reliable, but if you make a mistake that loses money, the gang becomes a poor bastard and if you do not take a bullet in the head you are fortunate."
Relations with Sonia are increasingly difficult, he plunges into nature by hiding in the mountains with the old shepherd quiet, peaceful life, not enough. Ends up in jail in Trieste and then by road traffic stones and whiskey. The Cyprus is Lebanon is a turning point, you can drop down very low. His mother dies, another turning point. A dinner in Genoa opens new scenarios, new direction: Spain, the Tortuga.
shifting daily, new companions of lawlessness, women still desire an illusion of peace. Escape to Marseille and back to Genoa. Money earned and money lost.
Sonia is there in the village, four years of "normal" life, time flies. In a Dalila night knows, she's a woman, or ... almost that entertains people, and not only ... the nails him twelve years imprisonment. A kidney cancer, another turning point. Escape to Punta Sabbioni, but police identified him and sends him to the Isle of Pianosa, then Padua. You can become a UF or MD, both conditions are not a delight. The prison is hard, there also gestures, rituals, words, silences, including the jailers. AIDS disrupts the detainees, Benjamin tries to figure out what to do. Maurizio Camardi they met in the theater and the sentence ends in 1991. Life can not change, constantly meets itself, the ghosts are waiting. Now men and weapons make it a lot, with Croatia.
Compare Vanni in his life, 55 years of racing. Time flies. It ends at Feltham, manager of the escort team hockey, everything becomes clearer, more trivially true.
"I'm getting weaker," he said.
Massimo Carlotto, an author of whom I had not read anything, I was bewitched. For now over and out. Rush to the library or library to buy this fucking book. Now.
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