the twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria

I wasn’t the only one who stopped to admire them, for they spun through every couple of minutes. Dust devils blew through block after block, kicking up leaves, napkins, and dirt. The wind might have made the journey harrowing, but it led to a supernatural air to Turin.

I walked out with wobbly knees and feeling cartoonishly dizzy, stars and all. It was better than the Milan flight, where I dug my nails into my wrist so tightly that they left scratch marks.

I got so nervous I closed my eyes and hummed quietly to myself. I’m sure we weren’t in mortal danger either time, though when you’re on a plane that is getting knocked about by gust after gust of wind, it makes all passengers question their safety at least once. This time, the day was clear, but it was exceptionally windy coming into Turin. The first time was going to Milan at night during a storm, where the woman next to me whispered in a lilting, terrified tone that she couldn’t die yet because she had kids at home. The Twenty Days Of Turin is out on and is available from Amazon.I’ll never fly over the Dolomites without fearing for my life. Given the rise of social media and the almost obsessive need of individuals today to share anything and everything about their lives, the themes of The Twenty Days Of Turin are more prescient now than ever before. The Twenty Days Of Turin is actually a forty year old novel by De Maria, and has enjoyed a cult following, but with this first English translation it is sure to find a wider audience. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention.

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create “the Library,” a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in “dialogues across the ether.” But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity.Īs the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day “phenomenon of collective psychosis” culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. “ Given the rise of social media and the almost obsessive need of individuals today to share anything and everything about their lives, the themes of The Twenty Days Of Turin are more prescient now than ever before.” Look Out For … The Twenty Days Of Turin by Giorgio De Maria

The twenty days of turin by giorgio de maria