Witchcraft
Couture
Oscar
Pellegrini is a talented fashion designer with a deadly enemy: his own critical
mind. He destroys much of what he designs and has been drifting for years,
gradually retreating from the fashion business he loves but holding on to his
dreams of success.
A chance meeting with a former girlfriend triggers a creative crisis so deep that Oscar escapes to Russia, where he drinks and despairs like never before. Just when he thinks he has lost everything he discovers a magical machine that turns ordinary outfits into irresistible sartorial triumphs. Oscar takes the machine back to Italy – and before he knows it, he has become famous for his designs, and celebrities and socialites are fighting to be first to wear his gorgeous garments.
But the happily-ever-after ending for the fashion messiah turns into a nightmare when his dresses acquire a life of their own, gaining energy and evil as time goes on. Haunted by his creations, a dark secret he is no longer able to hide, Oscar finds himself fighting for his life and sanity, and searching for the answer to a question he never knew existed.
Is there such a thing as stolen genius, and if there is, can it turn against the very person who stole it?
A chance meeting with a former girlfriend triggers a creative crisis so deep that Oscar escapes to Russia, where he drinks and despairs like never before. Just when he thinks he has lost everything he discovers a magical machine that turns ordinary outfits into irresistible sartorial triumphs. Oscar takes the machine back to Italy – and before he knows it, he has become famous for his designs, and celebrities and socialites are fighting to be first to wear his gorgeous garments.
But the happily-ever-after ending for the fashion messiah turns into a nightmare when his dresses acquire a life of their own, gaining energy and evil as time goes on. Haunted by his creations, a dark secret he is no longer able to hide, Oscar finds himself fighting for his life and sanity, and searching for the answer to a question he never knew existed.
Is there such a thing as stolen genius, and if there is, can it turn against the very person who stole it?
Absoulute Truth, for Beginners
Elisa Mancini is a Nobody.
Painfully insecure, more at ease with books than with people, at twenty-three
she’s a university dropout living at her aunt’s, drifting from one day to
another, and waiting for something big to happen.
Judith Shapiro is a Somebody. Arrogant and
eccentric, she’s a superstar of mathematics, the subject of scientific
articles, and the undisputed ruler of the world around her.
In a trillionth of a trillionth of a second,
Elisa falls madly in love with Judith Shapiro. For sixty-eight days she is the
mistress of an internationally acclaimed mathematician.
But loving Judith Shapiro is like running a
marathon in a war zone. As days pass, Elisa’s wild infatuation takes on a
suicidal bent, and the world around her starts to go to pieces. Just as
everything is about to blow up, the moment of truth comes.
Absolute Truth, for Beginners is
a story about truth, time and love. Or about identity, positive nursing,
degrees of happiness, Baroque art, scientific theories, homosexual lovemaking,
arrogant television producers, and becoming who you really are.
