Alfa Romeo 1300: And Other Miracles
Author(s): Fabio Bartolomei
Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighbourhood supermarket. What these three men have in common is their abject mediocrity. Together they embark on an ambitious project to run a holiday farmhouse outside of Naples, only to run into trouble from a local mobster. Suddenly their ordinary business becomes a quixotic act of defiance. A 'miraculous' Italian comedy that will delight and surprise readers, Alfa Romeo 1300 marks Fabio Bartolomei's debut.
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"A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile." -- Internazionale "Bartolomei's style is swift and immensely readable." -- Flaneri ""Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles" left the kind of smile on my face that doesn't go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis...Bortolomei is attentive to the proper rhythm of a story, the proper way to reveal plot, to what is and is not the right word in the right place, all of which produced exactly the right effect on this reader." -- Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno
Fabio Bartolomei works in advertising and lives in Rome. "Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles" is his first novel.
General Fields
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- : Europa Editions
- : Europa Editions
- : 0.409
- : 01 November 2012
- : 210mm X 135mm X 28mm
- : United States
- : 01 January 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : 853.92
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Fabio Bartolomei