King:A Street Story

"I must be crazy. I hear these words in my sleep, and every time I hear them, somewhere in the back of my throat, where the larynx meets the nose—that area that dries up when you're scared—I sigh like a dove. I'm going crazy so that I can take you to where we live..."

We're on the side of a highway, twelve kilometers from the city center and four kilometers from the sea, in a garbage dump full of discarded refrigerators, wrecked trucks, and broken sinks. This place, where there's talk of a large Olympic Stadium being built, is actually a spontaneous neighborhood. A unique neighborhood where Vico, who was once a big businessman, and his lover Vica; Jack, who imposed his own law on everyone because he was the first to settle here; and Anna, Marcello, Melek, Liberto, Joachim, Saul, Danny, Corina and Alfonso, each of whom carries their own past like a burden, take refuge in "homes" where they try to protect what is left of their lives. And this neighborhood's dog, King, who is in love with Vica...

Ambitions and hopelessness, loves and indifference, struggles to survive and resignation to death: Great poverty alongside great riches... Is the King the harbinger of a new age of barbarism, the Age of Dogs?

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type : 2. Pulp

Dimensions : 13 x 19.5

First Printing Year : 2017

Number of Printing : 1st Edition

Number of Pages : 192

Media Type : Paperback