THE BLACK CITY
Oscar Wilde said: "The world calls immoral the books that explain its own shame". And this novel is one of those books, a story where many other people's shames, hidden under a "sacred" mantle of silence, are uncovered.
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Leopoldo Casperano, a writer of recognized prestige, decides to stay for a while in the Diocesan Residential Complex, right next to the Episcopal Palace (a place popularly known as "the Black City"), to document himself about a monk-scientist who lived, in that same place, in an ancient monastery during the Middle Ages.
When, after a long stay, he sees that his research is leading him to a dead end, he decides to leave the Complex. He is about to do so, but the friendship that, during that time, has arisen between him and a young nun (Monsignor's personal assistant), will make him change his initial decision and stay in the place for some more time. During that time he will know love, an intense love, but he will also discover many of the infamous facts that populate such a singular "City"; facts that are kept hidden under a sacred mantle of silence, which protects and shelters them without fissures.
It is a novel full of intense and raw narrative moments, in which the human soul is laid bare to show all that is good and bad in it.