Night's Lies by Gesualdo Bufalino  (2)
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Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996), one of the most influential Sicilian writers of the 20th century, started writing fiction after a career as a school-teacher. His last novel is narrated by Tommaso Mule, the idle janitor of a crumbling apartment block on the edge of the city. Tommaso is reputed to be weak in the head, but as the reader soon discovers, this is far from the case. We get to know a range of comically observed tenants from a variety of humble walks of life, but Tommaso's favourite friend among them is the photographer, nicknamed Tiresias by Tommaso, or Tir for short, who stubbornly continues in his profession in spite of having lost his sight to glaucoma seven years previously. He works with the help of an orphan 'guide boy' who sets up the camera for him. Being blind, he is asked to take the pictures at a high society orgy, but he fails to surrender the last reel of film, and soon after he is killed in a neatly staged traffic accident. But all is not as it seems - only Tommaso and the reader know what is really going on - or do they? (Kirkus UK)
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Tommaso is the janitor of a crumbling apartment block. Through him we get to know all the inhabitants of this teetering Italian microcosm--the pedlars, the ponces, the florid housewives, the wannabes and the has-beens. We also get to know the janitor's friend, a blind photographer.
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Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996), one of the most influential Sicilian writers of the 20th century, started writing fiction after a career as a school-teacher. His last novel is narrated by Tommaso Mule, the idle janitor of a crumbling apartment block on the edge of the city. Tommaso is reputed to be weak in the head, but as the reader soon discovers, this is far from the case. We get to know a range of comically observed tenants from a variety of humble walks of life, but Tommaso's favourite friend among them is the photographer, nicknamed Tiresias by Tommaso, or Tir for short, who stubbornly continues in his profession in spite of having lost his sight to glaucoma seven years previously. He works with the help of an orphan 'guide boy' who sets up the camera for him. Being blind, he is asked to take the pictures at a high society orgy, but he fails to surrender the last reel of film, and soon after he is killed in a neatly staged traffic accident. But all is not as it seems - only Tommaso and the reader know what is really going on - or do they? (Kirkus UK)
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Tommaso is the janitor of a crumbling apartment block. Through him we get to know all the inhabitants of this teetering Italian microcosm--the pedlars, the ponces, the florid housewives, the wannabes and the has-beens. We also get to know the janitor's friend, a blind photographer.
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