The painter E-Book

Gino Marchitelli

• Herausgeber: Gino Marchitelli
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

An old Danish artist falls in love with the colours and beauties of the nature of Carovigno, a town located in the Italian area of Salento, and moves to live there in the centre of the old town. During his daily creative work he will paint and photograph something or someone he wouldn’t have to… Three local wild boys, mocked and excluded by the conformist society of the town, live a mad life. Their “immoderacy” will lead them to get into a mess, causing pain, despair, and making them fall into the abyss of murders. Inspector Matteo Lorenzi, from the Milanese flying squad and the journalist Cristina Petruzzi from Radio Popolare, will end up to interrupt their holiday to investigate and collaborate with the local police on some murders. A tragedy, a real disaster of the modern age that will lead to explode the myth of conformism, personal interest, opportunism and selfishness of a world of adults who are no longer taking care of the needs of new generations. However, are the real marginalized people those young guys who express clearly their discomfort, by taking synthetic drugs to crack their brain, or that multitude of young people who, hidden by a quiet and submissive appearance, try to restrain an unprecedented social rage caused by the lack of a future prospect? In the breathtaking, sad and painful end of the book, characterized by blood and tragedy, the young “Tony the Scrawny”, the leader of the marginalized gang of Carovigno, will reveal the reverse of the medal: the dark side of a selfish society, which aims at chasing success, money and power by abandoning its children and young people to their own devices, to a solitary future made of pain, despair and death.

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Table of contents

General informations

General informations nr.2

Biography of author Gino Marchitelli

Preface

Prologue

The Anglo-Saxons

Vacation at last!

The painter

Torre Guaceto and the English family

Wake up lazy inspector!

The dream

Kids

Towards Penna Grossa

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Katrin Maren

Chapter XII

30th March 2008, the party

Rocco

Chapter XV

4th April 2008, the tourist arrives

The fishing boat

8th April 2008, the visit of the “old land”

The Sanctuary of Belvedere

Police Station of Ostuni

Friends

Investigations

Bitterness

Tony is no longer the same

Boats & owners

Nielsen the painter

Disaster

Chapter XXVIII

In the countryside, among olive trees

Cristina Petruzzi of Radio Popolare

Danger

Chiancone

Tony…how to explain?

Sometimes you think

Matteo

Cristina

Let’s put all details together

Angelo and “Uncle Egidio”

Chapter XXXVIII

Chapter XXXIX

We are alone

The flight

Everything has a start and an end

Notes by the author

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General informations

On the cover an original painting by Elena Amadei,

graphics processing by Gino Marchitelli (Milan-Italy)

Translation by Manuela Xillovich

Post-editing by Kerry Spencer

"Manuela Greco & Carmen Carluccio, Turicchio Restaurant in Santa Sabina, are present in the Painter"

With me...

General informations nr.2

Dear readers, to give you the chance, in some passages of the text, to ‘live’ the most intimate feelings of some protagonists, I encourage you, when you find the links to some pieces of music, to listen to them attentively while reading, in order to be closer and share as much as possible their emotion.

YOU CAN USE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS, MY WEBSITE, OR FACEBOOK PAGE TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME, ASK INFORMATION, SEE THE NEWS, LEAVE COMMENTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS.

Copyright © 2013

Marchitelli Luigi Pietro Romano

All rights reserved

All colour photos included in the book belong to Gino Marchitelli, except one that was kindly provided by Manuela Greco from Carovigno [Brindisi - Italy]

Biography of author Gino Marchitelli

Gino Marchitelli

Luigi Pietro Romano Marchitelli known as ‘Gino’ – Biography -

Gino Marchitelli

Born in Milan on 23.05.1959

He got this secondary-school diploma in Industrial Electronics (1977-78) at the Technical Industrial Institute Feltrinelli of Milan, and then he worked as an electronic technician for many years on Saipem’s oilrigs. He is active in the field of renewable energies and photovoltaic, in electronic, civil and industrial plant engineering.

An active member of CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) and Democrazia Proletaria (Proletarian Democracy was a political party in Italy), he participated in the oilrig workers’ hard struggles and in the creation of a parliamentary denunciation dossier that contributed to the ENI scandal caused at the end of the ’80s. Currently he is an executive member of A.N.P.I. (National Association of Italian Partisans) of San Giuliano Milanese. He is the president of the cultural association Il Picchio. He is also a singer-songwriter registered with SIAE (Italian Authors and Publishers Association) and in 2013 he was a finalist of the contest Il Camaleonte 2013 at the Turin International Book Trade Fair with a song dedicated to the workers who died at Thyssen Krupp.

His first noir novel Morte nel Trullo, was published in June 2012, and reprinted twenty times in just over three years, the social noir novel Qvimera, was published in April 2013. Marchitelli was invited to present his works in over 200 Italian cities by public authorities, culture councillors, cultural associations, libraries, reading groups and circles, simply through word of mouth and the internet.

In December 2013 Il Pittore(The Painter) was published and awarded the honour certificate for 2013 New Work at the International Literary Prize Il Molinello, gaining a special mention during the Provincia in Giallo 2014 in Garlasco (PV). A literary case developed step by step from the bottom up. In June 2014 he created and published the DVD Siamo i Ribelli della Montagna(We are the Rebels of the Mountain), a 50-minute video interview to follower who were the protagonists of the liberation of the D’Ossola Valley in 1944 on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. In November 2014 he published Milano non ha Memoria (Milan has no Memory), with Fratelli Frilli Editori publishing house and Il Barbiere Zoppo (The Lame Barber) – 1969 Una Ragazza e la Scoperta della Resistenza (A Girl and the Discovery of Resistance), in October 2015 with Infinito Edizioni publishing house. In November 2015 Sangue nel Redefossi (Blood in the Redefossi River) went to press published by Fratelli Frilli Editori.

You can find more information on the website www.ginomarchitelli.com

Preface

Preface

It is not easy to preface Gino’s book. To speak about his books it is necessary to go through his personal story and therefore to learn about Gino Marchitelli. All of his books, even if he denies it, show a strong autobiographic component. Not a superficial one about his past, but the intimate, passionate psychological one.

Gino is a special person, as are his books. Morte nel Trullo (Death Inside a Trullo House) his first literary work, shows a raw writing, but at the same time its story and narration are thrilling. With Qvimera, his second book, the promising author begins to refine his style and understand the principles of writing a good ‘noir’. There you are! A year later, he releases The Painter.

A noir completely set in the Apulia region, in his beloved Carovigno.

As you will notice, Gino always draws his inspiration from places and experiences he is familiar with.

The Painter is a profound and melancholic noir book, comparable to a Greek tragedy.

Music is one of the main protagonists of this book.

Characters are portrayed in an outstanding way and his way of writing makes the reader’s mind vibrate leading it to almost explode.

The Painter is no ordinary detective novel, but a real life story made of extreme emotion of young guys who live their life beyond good and evil, in the presence of a murder and its investigation.

Gino does not focus on the characters of Lorenzi and Cristina, but aims to communicate to a different message to the reader. His writing at intervals biting and then full of harmony and sensitivity leads us down to the abyss and then forces us to ‘climb back’ to the top.

A thriller that will leave you breathless.

Riccardo Sedini  GialloMania Association

Prologue

The strong northwest wind was blowing impetuously and the waves in the sea were following one another without stopping.

The white foam of a wave seemed like it wanted to tear and swallow the previous one to wipe it out.

The fury of the elements howled something terrible and nature couldn’t rest, an agreement between them was made. The seabed was stirred by the roar of the gale, which hauled ashore everything left in the sea.

The animals of the reserve sniffed the smell of death in the air and remained hidden.

The body rolled, sank, got cast out in the foam and then rolled again, like it was in a strange unnatural dance.

It washed up, another wave pushed it again, a third wave tried to carry it back into the sea until the final and largest wave flung it beyond the rocks and against the sand dunes.

The Anglo-Saxons

The plane landed on time at Brindisi’s airport.

A simple charter like so many others. A winged monster, about to offload hundreds of tourists, ready to invade the area of Salento.

Men, women and children with different appearances and pale complexions would soon warm up in the blazing southerly sun.

The view of the coast, with the sea as transparent clear as glass, provoked admiration and wonder among the English tourists.

The emerald green water near the coast contrasted with the dark shades of submerged rocks, drawing bizarre archaic shapes.

The three kids were excited. They had heard their parents talking about Italy several times, defining it as the boot-shaped nation full of beauties.

Little Doris, four years old, played with a doll on her lap. The skinny and short legs, with tiny little pink sandals, stuck out the seat of the plane.

Edward, six years old, was very tall for his age. Blonde, with a crew cut, a nice round head like a football and an adorable face showing a toothless smile.

He wore thick glasses held by elastic behind the back of his neck.

Robert, eight years old, freckled and lanky, was snoozing against the window.

Helen clasped her husband Richard’s arm, while looking down towards the wonderful colours of the sea, of the natural reserve and of the fields covered by amazing green, yellow and red flowers that had just bloomed.

Colours spread harmoniously; including shades of blue and green to yellow and blood red.

A stunning and touching spectacle, lit by the spring sun, and ‘nailed up’ to a clear sky without clouds.

“Rich! This is amazing, I don’t think I’ve ever seen something like this before.”

“It’s gorgeous, Look at those colours.”

“Fantastic!”

“Helen, look there! A tower, an old tower, what’s its name? You mentioned it to me.”

“Torre Guaceto. A natural oasis. There are also Mediterranean turtles and stunning beaches.”

“Turtles?” asked Edward while craning his neck trying to look out of the plane window.

“Yes, Edward, here you can see the sea turtles.”

When they departed the plane a delightful temperature and the particularly mild, but perpetual wind of Salento gave them a warm welcome.

They took off in their hired car.

The airport clock marked 8.25am when they drove off towards the Bari – Brindisi clearway.

They were all happy and excited. The kids couldn’t sit still on the back seat and kept on asking questions. Helen and Richard couldn’t imagine the absurd and inexplicable fate that would have awaited them, and that would have turned all that joy and light-heartedness into a nightmare they would never forget.

They set out for the reserve of Torre Guaceto.

The calendar marked 6th April 2008.