A Conspiracy of Talkers - Savatteri, Gaetano
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A Murdered Sicilian Mayor and Stolen American Trucks: American Lieutenant Benjamin Adano investigates some missing trucks, while the Carabinieri craft a conspiracy to implicate an innocent man for a mayor's murder and protect the dead man's enemies. The entire town, from the priest to the poet, gets caught in a web of half-truths and deception. Class, generational, and political conflicts, poverty and war form the backdrop of this skillfully translated masterpiece of crime narrative. The tension between truth and lies, between words and silence fill this small-town Sicilian drama to mirror the…mehr

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A Murdered Sicilian Mayor and Stolen American Trucks: American Lieutenant Benjamin Adano investigates some missing trucks, while the Carabinieri craft a conspiracy to implicate an innocent man for a mayor's murder and protect the dead man's enemies. The entire town, from the priest to the poet, gets caught in a web of half-truths and deception. Class, generational, and political conflicts, poverty and war form the backdrop of this skillfully translated masterpiece of crime narrative. The tension between truth and lies, between words and silence fill this small-town Sicilian drama to mirror the larger devastating effects of injustice, both personal and societal.
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Autorenporträt
Gaetano Savatteri (1964, Milan) grew up in Racalmuto, Sicily. In 1980 he co-founded the cultural journal "Malgrado Tutto" ("In Spite of Everything," https://www.malgradotuttoweb.it/), of which he is still an editor and a contributor. He was a reporter for the newspapers "Giornale di Sicilia" and "L'indipendente" before working as a journalist on Italy's Canale 5 and Rete 4 TV networks. He is the author of several books on mafia culture and history, as well as an array of short stories and novels, and he has written for stage and screen. "A Conspiracy of Talkers" ("La congiura dei loquaci) was his first novel and is his first work to appear in English. Today he lives and works in Rome."