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Kate Wiliams and Niccolò Vivarelli
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| 14/12/2012 |
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Kate Williams - author of The Pleasure of Men, a historian who specializes in Victorian Era, and a familiar face on British television, as a commentator on the Royal Family - has written a novel about a young woman who lives in a London terrorized by Jack the Ripper. Says Williams: “In Great Britain, in the 19th century, no one thought a serial killer could exist. Everyone thought it was the work of a gang. My character feels a kind of closeness to the victims, she feels she could be close to them. I wrote my first novel because as a historian I’m forced to be faithful to the facts. Here I could let my imagination run wild, travel in a time machine, like I did as a girl playing with my little brother. Now I’d like to walk around Naples, and set my next adventure in 19th century Naples.”
A psychological mystery that will be out in Italy in February, Slalom is set in a drug rehab center in Niccolò Vivarelli’s native city of Florence. The Italian-American journalist turned novelist, who has written for numerous publications and is currently the Italy correspondent for Variety, says: “The story is set in Florence because that’s the city I know best. In writing the novel I was inspired by Robert’s Altman Short Cuts, and tried to recreate that rhythm. The book is a about a 30-year-old who has taken drugs half his life but has decided to quit and checked into rehab, where he’s not sure he wants to return, however, because he suspects murders are taking place there. This is the inner slalom of the character, who must work his way through all kinds of physical and moral obstacles. And chooses the right path. It’s not a book about drugs, but on the life of a former drug addict. But ultimately it’s a book that speaks of everyone’s condition.” |
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