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Gate of Hell by Laurent Gaude (Actes Sud)

We just get my attention to the author, Laurent Gaude and particularly on the book The Gates of Hell , published in 2008 by Editions Actes Sud. The comments were particularly complimentary about him. After reading the pitch, I could not help but order it. I'll come back to talk in some time.

2002, at a restaurant in Naples, Filippo Scalfaro accomplishes his vengeance: he stabbed in the stomach and then a client, the knife at his throat, he forced him to accompany him outside, put into a car, takes the lead Cemetery. Arrived there, he dragged him to a grave and actually decipher the inscription. Then he cut the fingers and left him there, bleeding and moaning.

1980, in the crowded streets of Naples, Matteo takes his son by the hand and hurried to school. At a crossroads, suddenly a firefight erupts. Matteo was thrown to the ground, setting him against his little boy. When he gets up, he is bathed in the blood of the child, hit by a stray bullet.

2002, after a recent visit to "Aunt Grace" transvestite prostitute and he grew up, the who has completed his revenge may finally leave Naples and southbound, from in search of his family, missing since the time of the great earthquake.

1980: mourning has gradually built a wall of silence between Matteo and his wife, Giuliana. Matteo has not worked. Every night, he drives his cab through the streets of Naples, hardly ever taking the customer. He knows what Giuliana awaits him: he find and punish the responsible. But he can not. One evening, circumstances lead him into a tiny coffee bar, where he made the acquaintance of a particular professor who holds a strange discourse on the reality of Hell and the opportunity to go down ...

novelist and playwright born in 1972, Laurent Gaude published by Actes Sud several plays: Battles owned (1999), Onysos the Furious (2000), Rain of Ashes (2001), Ashes on the hands (2002 ), Le Tigre blue of the Euphrates (2002), Salina (2003), Medea Kali (2003), The Sacrificed (2004), The Ring (in the Five Fingers, 2006), four novels: Cris ( Babel 2001 and No. 613), The Death of King Tsongor (2002, Prix Goncourt 2002 high school students, price Booksellers 2003, Babel No. 667), Le Soleil des Scorta (2004, 2004 Prix Goncourt, Prix Jean Giono-2004, Babel No 734) and Eldorado (2006). And a collection of short stories, In the night Mozambique (2007).




Frederick Fontès