Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

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Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighbourhood supermarket. What these three men have in common is their abject mediocrity. Together they embark on an ambitious project to run a holiday farmhouse outside of Naples, only to run into trouble from a local mobster. Suddenly their ordinary business becomes a quixotic act of defiance. A miraculous' Italian comedy that will delight and surprise readers, Alfa Romeo 1300 marks Fabio Bartolomei's debut.'

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Praise for Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

"An entertaining and humorous debut."
--La Repubblica

"A melancholy yet hopeful fable told with a smile."
--Internazionale

"Bartolomei's style is swift and immensely readable."
--Flaneri

"Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles left the kind of smile on my face that doesn't go unnoticed and which people often mistake for a kind of facial paralysis...Bortolomei is attentive to the proper rhythm of a story, the proper way to reveal plot, to what is and is not the right word in the right place, all of which produced exactly the right effect on this reader."
--Valentina Aversano, Setteperuno

Author Bio

Fabio Bartolomei was born and lives in Rome. Hes a writer, a screenwriter, and a teacher of creative writing. His debut novel wasAlfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles(Europa, 2012) and withWe Are Family, his second novel, he won the Elle Magazine Readers Grand Prize. Antony Shugaar is the author of I Lie for a Living and Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator. For Europa Editions he has translated among others novels by Massimo Carlotto, Stefano Benni, Domenico Starnone, and Carmine Abate.