The dead boy and the comets

G. Parise

An amazing and frightening picture of post-war Italian youth. In striking kaleidoscopic prose, against the background of destruction and poverty in a canal town near Venice, the story of the Boy and his vividly contrasted young friend develops. The main characters are three teen-age boys who narrate the story. In this surreal story the living can speak with the dead, can even kill them again, and can themselves die, yet continue to exist.