Tag: Francesca Febbrari
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
The gears of destiny
Tommy, Ruth and Kathy are raised in a very peculiar boarding school, where the students are taught to appreciate and master...
Walter Tevis – Mockingbird
Poetic Dystopia
The novel is set in a discouraging and profetic scenario - a run-down New York City, where people are uncultured and living in...
Lucille Fletcher – The Girl In Cabin B54
High Anxiety Mysteries
A ship's doctor thinks he has permanently buried his past but a creepy young lady, who apparently is also a gifted psychic,...
Rogelio Iriarte – The Prince of Death
The ambiguous intertwining between good and evil
"I need your help to turn myself in".
An old man tells this to a journalist called Arsenio Cabrales.
"Being...
John Dickson Carr – The Crooked Hinge
Murders and witchcraft
A rich English squire who miraculously survived the sinking of the Titanic - and is haunted by weird nightmares - is accused...
Jerome Charyn and Joe Staton – Family Man
Amorality Wins
New York: the story is set in a distant future, where the streets are ruled by dirty cops and ruthless criminal gangs.
But the...
Stefano Sala – The Golden Chessboard
A dream in front of a chessboard
Palermo, Cappella Palatina: the two Muslims portrayed in a fresco, have been playing a game of chess for...