El sastre de Mussolini

Claudius Galenus and his life. It'll be a very long night; the future of the Empire is at stake; while waiting for a resolution, Claudius Galenus makes a balance of his own life. In spite of certain troubles, he considers himself to be privileged: he has known the love of three women, and his profession has allowed him to travel throughout the world and meet all kinds of people.

ROMANZO BREVE (75 pagine) - FANTASCIENZA - Un mondo distopico dove solo il coraggio e l'astuzia permettono la sopravvivenza a chi non vuole adeguarsi a un destino segnato dalle droghe e dal torpore mentale. Questa novella è un'interessante estrapolazione sulla società americana del futuro vicino. La fine della guerra fredda tra i due blocchi contrapposti (sovietico e americano) ha portato a un patto che prevede lo smantellamento dei relativi eserciti. Ma le due potenze, e in particolare quella americana, si sono inventate altri sistemi per tenere gli uomini allenati al combattimento. In...

Madeline Crawford has loved Jeremy Whitman for twelve years, but ultimately it was him who sent her to prison. In between her suffering and pain, she had to witness her man fall in love with another woman…Five years later, she has returned with renewed strength, no longer the same woman he belittled years ago!With this newfound strength, she will tear apart those who pretend to be pure and step on the scums of this earth. However, just as she is about to have her revenge with the man who wronged her… He suddenly turns from a cold, unfeeling psychopath, to a caring, warm and loving man!In...

‘Somewhere in the cosmos there are happier places,’ muses Martin Vrána, the hero of Jan Balabán’s novel Where was the Angel Going?. ‘People are transported to the planet Earth for punishment. Part of the punishment is their ignorance of the fact. We’ve forgotten that we’ve forgotten.’ Yet, as this very reflection implies, in Martin’s case, part of his ‘punishment’ is his ever-present memory of an Eden from which he had been expelled. The prototypical outsider, a member of a minority community within a minority community (a Protestant in the overwhelmingly agnostic Czech...