The Bridge at Locri - Couverture souple

Allen, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912788349 ISBN 13 : 9781912788347

Editeur : Colenso Books, 2024

Synopsis

It’s 1963 and a group of young pacifists have signed up to change the world, volunteering to build a small road bridge for a community near Locri, a town in Calabria, southern Italy.These disparate characters begin as comrades working for a common cause, yet their ideals are tested in arguments over the collective good versus the rights of the individual, while personal desires quickly create further schism. The touch paper is lit when one of the volunteers, Italian heiress Isabella, who has affairs with two members of the group, disappears in an area notorious for the presence of the ’Ndrangheta mafia. Instead of murder or kidnapping for ransom could there be a much simpler explanation? The Bridge at Locri is, on one level, a mystery novel, in which the mystery is approached from the different perspectives of six narrators. On another, it’s a book which spans sixty years and charts the stories of the principal characters who, after Locri, go back to their own countries, with the missing but ever-present Isabella looming over all their lives. This elegant page-turning novel draws you into a wider view, offering a panorama of six decades of our history brought to us by the voices of intelligent, passionate and flawed characters from different corners of the world: Bosnia, East Germany, Colombia, Australia, Italy, Malawi and England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Allen is a magazine publisher, a former Professional Publishers Association Editor of the Year, and author, who lives in London and Wiltshire. His company, the Mark Allen Group, of which he is the executive chairman, publishes more than a hundred magazines and organises around two hundred exhibitions, conferences and other events a year in twelve different business and consumer sectors. In 2023 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Business Admini-stration by Richmond American University London. His first novel, Life Term, a psychological thriller, was published by Colenso Books in 2021 to critical acclaim, receiving around seventy reviews on Amazon. Three of his poems were published, again by Colenso Books, in The Covid Years: a composite journal from many hands in poetry prose and pictures (2023). Married with four children and seven grandchildren, Mark is interested in both jazz and classical music and enjoys walking, swimming and watching cricket and rugby.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Colenso Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912788349
• ISBN 13: 9781912788347
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible