The Day of the Dead: The Autumn of Comissario Ricciardi by Giovanni Maurizio de

Author:Giovanni, Maurizio de [Giovanni, Maurizio de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime, thriller, Historical
ISBN: 9781609451943
Goodreads: 23089221
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

XXXI

Seven days earlier, Thursday, October 22

Tettè is running.

He’s running at breakneck speed, running barefoot and holding his wooden clogs to keep from falling.

He’s running and he’s risking his life, though he’ll lose that anyway, barely dodging car tires and carriage wheels. Horns honk in annoyance.

He’s running, dodging the walking sticks of gentlemen who swing their canes to punish him for forcing them to step aside.

He’s running, unintentionally splashing water on the nannies pushing tall perambulators, and they curse at him with incomprehensible words, uttered in the accents of unfamiliar dialects.

He’s running, and other scugnizzi try to trip him so that they can laugh at his calamitous fall, but he knows what they’re thinking and leaps over their outstretched feet, and stays upright.

He’s running, and the plate glass windows seem to be running along beside him, with shopgirls dressing mannequins who smile at him.

He’s running, and two little boys in smocks carrying bookbags and holding their mother by the hand watch him, envying him his freedom.

He’s running through the alley, and the dog is running after him, light, effortlessly, its ears fluttering like handkerchiefs waved from a departing train. It zigs and zags exactly like the boy, choosing the same trajectories as if it had some kind of advance notice of the route, as if they’d mapped it together.

They’re running, the dog and the boy: the same jutting ribs, the same eyes squinting in concentration, the same mouths half-open from the effort.

They’re running, and they hope they’ll get there in time.

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