A Fine Line (Guido Guerrieri) by Gianrico Carofiglio

Author:Gianrico Carofiglio
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781908524621
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Published: 2016-04-18T06:00:00+00:00

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I gave instructions to Consuelo and Maria Teresa to deputize for me in court, then went to the garage, took out my pointlessly expensive and rarely used car, and set off for Lecce.

Consuelo had asked me if I needed company for the ride. I’d said no, thanks, there were lots of things to do at the courthouse in Bari and it was best if we divided the tasks. Actually, Maria Teresa could have dealt with that morning’s chores on her own, but I preferred to be alone for those three hours there and back. I like driving without anybody beside me, especially if I don’t have to keep to a schedule. It may be because it doesn’t often happen, but it makes me feel free, like those first times when I took my father’s car and drove outside the city, at the age of twenty. When I was surprised that I could do what adults did. When I was surprised that I had become an adult.

At elementary school I had the recurring thought that I would never get to middle school. That I would die first. I didn’t have a specific fantasy about how that would happen, just that it wouldn’t be anything traumatic or frightening, or even upsetting. It was just a thought tinged with a slight regret for what I could have been and would never be.

I got to middle school and the belief crept in that I wouldn’t reach the age for high school. Then I entered high school and forgot all about that strange romantic fantasy. I remembered it five years later, when I graduated. I thought, with surprise and gratitude: I didn’t die and now I’m an adult. I can even drive a car and go around the world. I’ll never die.

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