Michele Mari
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raised on comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life,...
2) Rojo Floyd
Author
Language
Español
Description
Rojo Floyd es un acontecimiento literario único. Una novela hermosa y original, un fervoroso viaje por la galaxia Pink Floyd.
Sirviéndose de los recursos del documental tanto como de los más puros artilugios de la ficción, Michele Mari recrea los testimonios de una galería de personajes relacionados con la banda —reales e imaginarios, vivos y muertos— para armar un rompecabezas que se lee con vértigo y emoción. La novela da voz no solo...
3) Verdigris
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather's library. The greatest mystery he's ever encountered, however, doesn't come from a book-it's the groundskeeper, Felice, a sometimes frightening, sometimes gentle, always colorful man of uncertain age who speaks an enchanting...