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|title=Memory of the Abyss

|author=Marcello Fois

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781906694005

|pages=224

|publisher=MacLehose Press

|date=April 2012

|summary=This tale of a Sardinian Ned Kelly has some very interesting flashes, but was a bit too mystical and awkward for me on the whole.

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We are on Sardinia, over a hundred years ago. It is a land of legend, where storytellers can see a different nature to the moon each night and convey that in their earthly stories. It's a world of wonder, where sheep can fall from the skies for more than one reason. It's a poor land, where lads are expected to be responsible shepherds by the time they are ten. As a result people look after each other - except, while returning from a Christening Samuele and his father are refused basic hospitality. Later when the boy runs away one night the land falls away beneath him - yet he finds a girl to ground him to this earth. Which is most relevant when he goes to war, and particularly when he comes back and finds himself a wronged man, and in need of vengeance...

We heartily enjoyed the same publisher's [[Accabadora by Michela Murgia and Silvester Mazzarella (Translator)]] - also set on Sardinia in the last century - surely a very obscure niche market for them to take!

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