The book:
Edition AND / OR
Year 1992 Translation
Paperback Barbara Ferri
The plot:
After years of wandering in the South Seas, Hugh returned to Marseille to avenge Manu, a friend of youth murdered by the mob. But he is killed and it's up to a third friend, Fabio Montale, the task of doing justice. All three - Ugo, and Montale Manu - grew up poor in the streets of the port of Marseilles. Together they have taken the first petty theft, robbery and then some, but they also shared the dream of exotic countries, the first disc and the first books, swim in the sea, the drunkenness. And above all they loved the same woman, Lole. Then the roads are separated: Manu is lost in games criminals are too big, Hugh started, Montale has become a strange police, more street educator in neighborhoods that cop.
The book is, as stated in the unmistakable style of Izzo, a mixture of emotion and anger, sadness and tenderness. A
Marseille which has a split races and underworld gangs. The difficulty, as always, to coexist peacefully with other cultures.
I was struck by a sentence in the book that says: "Marseille belongs to those who live there", as it should be for every place in the world.
Three childhood friends, a very close relationship, both to love even the same woman. Three separate destinies that, for various choices of life, will find themselves bitterly.
not up to "The sun of the dying", but certainly to be read by those who appreciate the Mediterranean noir, perhaps a kind of niche, but for the extraordinary sensations that can be transmitted.
Writer:
Born in Marseille in 1945 and died in 2000. It 'been a writer and screenwriter.
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