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A Murdered Sicilian Mayor and Stolen American Trucks: American Lieutenant Benjamin Adano investigates some missing trucks, while the Carabinieri craft a conspiracy to implicate an innocent man for a mayor's murder and protect the dead man's enemies. The entire town, from the priest to the poet, gets caught in a web of half-truths and deception. Class, generational, and political conflicts, poverty and war form the backdrop of this skillfully translated masterpiece of crime narrative. The tension between truth and lies, between words and silence fill this small-town Sicilian drama to mirror the larger devastating effects of injustice, both personal and societal.

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A subtle story of perennial Sicilian images.... The scenes echo now with Sciascia-like investigations, ...now with a fatalism of Gattopardo, now with Camilleri-like detective tales. - Rossana Campisi in La Repubblica A novel that can be read in one breath, presenting itself almost like an essay and...leaving the reader with a sense of certainty, managing to hit on the ultimate essence of justice. - Salvatore Ferlita in La Repubblica There are pages in this little book of high narrative quality.... moments of strong narrative intensity that reveal Savatteri as a natural-born storyteller...it's a kind of challenge, respectful and courageous: it's the conscientious, rational, sober acceptance of a difficult legacy. - Andrea Camilleri, author of the Montalbano Series

A subtle story of perennial Sicilian images.... The scenes echo now with Sciascia-like investigations, ...now with a fatalism of Gattopardo, now with Camilleri-like detective tales. - Rossana Campisi in La Repubblica A novel that can be read in one breath, presenting itself almost like an essay and...leaving the reader with a sense of certainty, managing to hit on the ultimate essence of justice. - Salvatore Ferlita in La Repubblica There are pages in this little book of high narrative quality.... moments of strong narrative intensity that reveal Savatteri as a natural-born storyteller...it's a kind of challenge, respectful and courageous: it's the conscientious, rational, sober acceptance of a difficult legacy. - Andrea Camilleri, author of the Montalbano Series As for the story, ... it is based on real events that happened in and around Racalmuto during the Second World War. One of the great benefits of my reading A Conspiracy of Talkers is that I have learned of this event, of which I was previously ignorant. One of the things I love about books is that they not only entertain but educate. This one clearly does both. I loved the pathos of the characters, clearly depicted by Savatteri in beautiful and sparse prose. His writing of conversations amongst the characters was particularly enjoyable as it not only propelled the plot forward by gave me a clear understanding of the characters including their internal condition and emotional state. The description of the two solitudes... those working to protect and hide the identity of the true murderer... as well as the powerless who are simply pawns of the puppet masters... is wonderful and drew me into the narrative as well as the societal condition of these people at that time in Sicily's history. Overall, I very much enjoyed this book and recommend to readers who wish to learn more about a moment in time and its people while, at the same time, being entertained by a captivating story written by an author at the top of his craft. I am very much looking forward to reading the next book by Mr. Gaetano Savatteri. -MALGRADOTUTTO.WEB (https: //www.malgradotuttoweb.it/la-storia-di-centoedieci-sbarca-in-america/)

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"Gaetano Savatteri (1964, Milan) grew up in Racalmuto, Sicily. In 1980 he co-founded the cultural journal ""Malgrado Tutto"" (""In Spite of Everything,"" https: //www.malgradotuttoweb.it/), of which he is still an editor and a contributor. He was a reporter for the newspapers ""Giornale di Sicilia"" and ""L'indipendente"" before working as a journalist on Italy's Canale 5 and Rete 4 TV networks. He is the author of several books on mafia culture and history, as well as an array of short stories and novels, and he has written for stage and screen. ""A Conspiracy of Talkers"" (""La congiura dei loquaci) was his first novel and is his first work to appear in English. Today he lives and works in Rome."" Steve Eaton is an independent scholar and translator who lives with his wife Hu Hsueh-Tzu in Austin, Texas. His translations of short stories by Luigi Pirandello have appeared in the journals ""Metamorphoses,"" ""The Journal of Italian Translation,"" and ""The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America."" His blog, The Garden of Eaton, can be read at https: //gardenofeaton.home.blog/."

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