Blackout

Author:Gianluca Morozzi (Author), Howard Curtis (Author)

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Publication date: 2008-11-01

Language: English

Print length: 295 pages

ISBN-10: 190473832X

ISBN-13: 9781904738329

Book Description

"A spine-tingling novel that keeps you mesmerized from beginning to end."—InfiniteStorie

"Morozzi has a light touch. He has an uncanny ability to convey mood swings, excitement and plot twists with ever increasing velocity."—Gazzetta di Parma

"A chilling and claustrophobic thriller with an unpredictable ending. Morozzi joins the best in the genre."—LINUS

Bologna in August: unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man on his way to elope to Amsterdam with his girlfriend, Francesca. Aldo is a husband and father with an uncanny resemblance to Elvis Presley, anxious to get to an apartment filled with guilty secrets. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. Instead, they are trapped in an elevator in a deserted building on a holiday weekend. They are like three wasps in an upturned glass . . . and one of the trio is a serial killer.

This dark, twist-packed psychological thriller in the style of Phonebooth has been adapted as a US film to be released in the fall of 2008, starring Amber Tamblyn and directed by cult Mexican auteur Rigoberto Castañeda.

Gianluca Morozzi was born in Bologna in 1971, where he lives today. He is well-known as a cutting-edge satirist and music critic, often compared to Nick Hornby and Ben Elton. Blackout is his first thriller.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* This latest Italian import will remind fans of Giorgio Faletti’s I Kill (2008), though it’s considerably bloodier. The novel opens with Aldo Ferro, Elvis impersonator, successful businessman, torturer, and serial killer, working on his latest victim. Returning to his private bachelor apartment for more supplies, late in the afternoon on one of the hottest Bank Holidays ever seen in Bologna, Ferro gets into an elevator with Claudia, a young waitress returning from work, and Tomas, a teenage boy about to run away to Amsterdam with his girlfriend. Halfway up, the elevator stops. No one’s cell phone has any service, and the emergency call box fails to work. Throughout this fast-moving, compulsively readable, and horrifying story, narration alternates between Aldo, Claudia, and Tomas as they struggle to escape, gradually descending into despair and even madness as the hours tick by. The tiny cast accentuates Morozzi’s skill at deep and detailed characterization, and he never once fails in pace or plot. The twist at the very end will leave readers questioning the very underpinnings of our world. A superb one-sitting read. --Jessica Moye.

Review

"A thriller that reflects a derailed Italian society, a nation deprived of identity, infected by the dreams and nightmares of a US subculture."-Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "If you want a spine-tingling novel that keeps you mesmerised from beginning to end, Blackout is the book for you."-InfiniteStorie "Morozzi has a light touch. He has an uncanny ability to convey mood swings, excitement and plot twists with ever increasing velocity."-Gazzetta di Parma

About the Author

Gianluca Morozzi was born in Bologna in 1971, where he lives today. His most recent titles include "L'era del porco" and "Blackout", his first roman noir. Morozzi is known as a cutting edge satirist and music critic and is usually compared to Nick Hornby. In "Blackout" he evokes (in a very Italian way) the satirical touch of Ben Elton. Translator from the Italian of fiction and non-fiction

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