Novel particular and very varied in terms of the narrative woven by Carlo Lucarelli, who is probably best known for his performances as a conductor and television writer who does not as a writer. In reality, these two roads have always run in parallel, and were held together by a common denominator, represented by the mysteries. In fact, the hit TV show "Blue night "is subtitled" Italian Mysteries "and in his literary production Lucarelli has always been dedicated to yellow. In addition, its particular way of narrating, which made him famous on TV, I found to be present also in the written word. A narrative composed of short sentences and snappy, the incidental, repetition, punctuation mark that seems to syncopated beats punctuate the film as the melody of an orchestra. Very special gimmick, and I personally found very interesting, and the shift of the narrator. Not one, in fact, but three are the views of this novel, which was followed by the role of each of the three main protagonists.
Even if nobody wants to admit it, in Bologna is in action a serial murderess, killing college students with a ritual macabre and disturbing. But what makes it special is the ability to take each time the identity of his victims, so that each of them has actually killed the previous year. Do not do it out of malice or glorification of violence, is simply the only way it can to silence the bells of hell that reverberate in your ears and do crazy, barely held at bay by listening to metal rock blaring with headphones. The difficult task is to figure out who, where and how to take it is entrusted to Grace, a police inspector but particular woman in a club for men only. For her it would be almost impossible to capture the murderess if he could not count on the help of Simon. A shy boy, isolated, without friends, with an obsessive mother, who lives locked in an attic where listening to the sounds of the world through the scanner audio. Small detail: Simone is blind. He sees only his nose and ears, he does not like to use the touch, and prefer their smell, with which interprets the world in its own way. For him, the colors are consonants and vowels, but also feelings, attitudes and emotions. Thus, the voice of the Assassin that sheds its skin like a reptile, and that Simon has picked up an item with the scanner is ugly, heavy, green, while Grace is gentle, sweet, blue. Alternating
a world of smells and sounds to a fact of delusional thoughts and bodies that turn, where to do interval between them are the fears and insecurities of a woman immersed in the prejudices of a sexist society, Lucas weaves a great story and gives us the opportunity to incarnate from time to time in the three main characters, with their emotions and thoughts, to the point, reading this novel, we can choose whether to be a murderess, a policewoman or a blind boy.
I do not have friends. It was my fault. Why not understand them. They talk about things that do not concern me. They say gloss, matt, luminous, invisible. As in that story I was told as a child to make me sleep, when there was a princess so beautiful and with skin so thin that it seemed transparent. It took me many, many nights to think, before realizing that transparency meant that you could look inside. For me it meant that we were passing through my fingers.