Catastrophe
"Weird [and] wonderful" stories by a Strega Prize winner with "shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario ...
Extrait : ... the verge of sleep when by chance— coincidence pure and simple—I noticed a peasant standing on a low wall and shouting out across the fields, his hands cupped over his mouth. This time too it was a matter Catastrophe. ...