The Age of Flowers – $240
by rgonzalezr
In a white city on the African shore of the Mediterranean, the Islamic fundamentalists are gaining control of the streets; the European community of artists and decadent aristocrats take refuge in memories and innumerable barely-recognised vices. Luca and Irene, a young couple, are accepted into this decaying and malicious ex-patriate society because of Irene’s family money. On learning that his wife has breast cancer, Luca becomes obsessed with the memory of his mother who died of the same illness, […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: 2003, decadence, Italia, Meditarraneo, Novela, Pushkin Press, Umberto Pasti