# Clandestinity

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- Book: [Clandestinity](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-moresco/clandestinity) ([Clandestinity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-moresco/clandestinity.md))
- Authors: [Antonio Moresco](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-moresco)
- Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
- ISBN: 978-16-4605-172-4
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2022-07-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this four-story suite, a modern master of Italian literature delves into the wonder and strangeness of the human condition. Eerie, fabulist, and elegant, each of Moresco's stories features a central character at a different time of his life: childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. In these beautiful and unsettling narratives, a dreamlike logic governs a vivid and strange physical world. In " Blue Room," the adolescent protagonist carries on a voyeuristic relationship with a blind old woman in a mysterious house. In “The Hole,” a young boy becomes fascinated by an outhouse toilet, a portal through which he observes bodily wastes, curiosities, and portents. In the title story, an act of violence deepens the nightmarish tones and mood of disorientation. And in “The King,” a child narrator-who may or may not be present—witnesses a horrific visit from an exiled ruler. Full of bodily parts, functions, and desires, Moresco’s stories distort time and reality to summon a world of carnal immediacy and uncanny haziness. A spectral and unnerving work of art, expertly translated by Richard Dixon, Clandestinity is a testament to Moresco’s genius.