Bandit Love (World Noir)
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (911 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0049U4LSO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 505 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When Sylvie, the lover of Buratti’s friend and partner in crime, Beniamino Rossini, is kidnapped, Buratti, Rossini, and Max la Memoria (“Max the Memory”) begin a frantic search for her throughout northeastern Italy. It’s noir, Italian-style, in the vein of Michael Dibdin’s Blood Rain (2000). And the lovelorn Buratti, who would prefer to be sitting in a seedy club listening to the blues and drinking Calvados, must honor Rossini’s old-school quest for revenge. The timeless Italian idea of vendetta is at the heart of this tale, but the portrait of an Italy rife with corruption, drugs, and vigilantes attacking illegal immigrants seems very
Not great but must read for any fan as part 1 of the story concluding in the stellar follow up, "Gang of Lovers" Amazon Customer Solid but not great effort by the masterful Carlotta in the continuing Alligator series, an unorthodox ex-con private detective of sorts. Must read for any fan because it sets the stage for the story's continuation in the fantastic Gang of Lovers, but it felt a little rushed and under developed for some reason compared to his other efforts. (Though The Colombian Mule is still his weakest Alligator effort).
. He is currently at work on a book about translation for the University of Virginia Press. Massimo Carlotto's first book, an autobiographical novel entitled The Fugitive, deals with his time on the run in Latin America. Aside from Giorgio Faletti s "A Pimp s Notes", his recent translations include books by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Silvia Avallone, Nanni Balestrini (with
In the world of Massimo Carlotto’s fiction, new and old criminal organizations collide and innocent bystanders are as hard to find as straight cops. Massimo Carlotto has been described as “the reigning king of Mediterranean noir” (Boston Phoenix), “more noir than even the toughest American noir” (Josh Bazell, author of Beat the Reaper), “about as gritty as they come” (The New York Times), and “the best living Italian crime writer” (Il Manifesto). Marco “The Alligator” Buratti is not only one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary crime fiction but also the ideal vivisector of a world in which criminals hold all the cards.. No