It's time for us to move on from the Via Merulana and head elsewhere.
By popular demand, the next books up for reading are Carlo Lucarelli's De Luca trilogy. All of them are bite-sized reads, but feel free to read as many or as few as you like.
First up is Carte Blanche, second in the series is The Damned Season and finally Via Delle Oche. For those unfamiliar with the premise, the books are set in the dying days of the Fascist regime. So, a bit like our first book, the Duce looms large.
I have been busy buying up other titles too and will be moving onto them after I have consumed the Lucarellis. In the pipeline, in no particular order, are Leonardo Sciascia's A Simple Story, Michele Giuttari's A Death in Calabria, the 11th Montalbano mystery by Andrea Camilleri The Wings of the Sphinx and, finally, a new one on me, just spotted in my local Waterstones - Death in August by Marco Vichi.
So, plenty to be going on with, plenty to discuss, hopefully. Now bring me my espresso, a shot of grappa and my, er, reading glasses.
I have to confess that what with exam season & such like, Gadda defeated me too. But I love the Lucarelli that I have read in the past (Almost Blue, Guernica, L'Isola del Angelo Caduto, Lupo Mannaro) and so I will go to Feltrinelli this afternoon & stock up on books to take away with me to the US on my 3 week trip.
ReplyDeleteNice one, its a no pressure kind of club anyway - just read the titles you fancy and chip in suggestions of other books we might enjoy from time to time.
ReplyDeleteI'll try to give this a go Ginkers. I'm currently getting back to my roots with the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read much giallo previously but I have read Crimini that someone bought me as a present a few years ago which is a collection of short stories edited by Giancarlo De Cataldo. It has a stories in it by Carlo Lucarelli and Andrea Camillieri. Maybe I'll go back to that as a refresher to rekindle my interest.