In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy, four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, resurrecting their pasts, lifting the veil on lives of heroic hope and sordid ambition, br...
In this collection of twenty-odd short stories the situations vary - the reader is invited to consider Noah's ark as it first takes the ground after the Flood, and to experience a brush with Jack the Ripper in foggy Victorian London....
Tommaso is the janitor of a crumbling apartment block. Through him we get to know all the inhabitants of this teetering Italian microcosm -- the pedlars, the ponces, the florid housewives, the wannabes and the has-beens. We also get to know the janit...