Death's dark abyss
By: Massimo Carlotto ; translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti
Contributors: Venuti, Lawrence
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781933372181
Subjects: Crime; Fiction
Work titles: Oscura immensitá della morte
Description: Carlotto (The Goodbye Kiss), who served time for a murder he didn't commit before becoming a writer, has crafted a subtle and disturbing tale of the effects of violence on its survivors. Wine salesman Silvano Contin's unremarkable but happy life is irrevocably shattered when a pair of bank robbers seize his wife and young son as hostages, and then execute them.