The eighth vibration (The ottava Vibrazioni)
Carlo Lucarelli
Translator: Serge Quadruppani
Anne-Marie Métailié - Collection: Italian Library - 08/10 - 413 pages - 22 euros
In the heat of defeat
The eighth vibration is an enigmatic title, which is revealed to the reader until the very end of the book. He is the faithful reflection of what novel multifaceted both historical novel, thriller, adventure story and even romance. All a mixture of right dose that makes us live in the heart of an expeditionary force of the Italian army bogged down in his dreams of colonization and in the sweltering heat of Eritrea in 1896.
A story that grabs you and ending on the climax of the Battle of Adwa which was the first won by an army of an army of colonial settlers.
Total immersion alongside multiple protagonists who each make us live their stories, their accents, their languages and cultures. Such as Vittorio Cappa said "the magician" who knows better than anyone manage to forget to take delivery of Supplies of the Italian army arriving in Africa. But above all makes the mistake of falling in love with the wrong woman. Pasolini or anarchist who finds himself in the army for not finishing on the scaffold, and once in the forehead should make the choice to shoot or not to save his life, and thus defend the colors of this flag that 'he never met. It also meets Aisha, the black bitch half witch half-whore, releasing an eroticism so powerful that few men know how to resist it. Sciortino and finally, the ghost soldier, originally a shepherd in the Abruzzi, a simple-minded do not understand the ins and outs of This agitation in the desert but will one of the few escape unscathed from this nightmare.
A powerful book to build highly intelligent led ably by Italian star of the detective novel, which is also a screenwriter or comic book journalist. Carlo Lucarelli is even in his country to host a successful TV show that talks about unsolved crimes. It's a real star on the other side of the Alps. He gives us is a great novel you will not soon forget, served by the impeccable translation of the director of the collection: Serge Quadruppani.
Article PAGE appeared in No. 139, September 2010
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