Bridge at Locri

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-10
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt369 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagColenso Books
ISBN9781912788347

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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.

CONTENTSDedication viiPART ONERETURN TO LOCRI 2023 3PART TWOBUILDING THE BRIDGE 1963 15PART THREEISABELLA’S JOURNAL 1963 81PART FOURTHE YEARS BETWEENChapter One 1968 Amar 111Chapter Two 1973 Oliver 127Chapter Three 1975 Thomas 143Chapter Four 1983 Maria 159Chapter Five 1989 Adam 173Chapter Six 1995 Amar 187Chapter Seven 2003 Oliver 205Chapter Eight 2008 Thomas 221Chapter Nine 2013 Maria 233Chapter Ten 2018 Adam 249PART FIVEA MEETING IN LOCRI 2023 269Afterword 286

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