«The Smell of Almonds» is the debut novel of Francis Formicola flowing and pleasant, which leaves the reader free to imagine the development of dialogues and situations, starts from the murder of a drug dealer, a simple pretext to tell the personal evolution of Luca, a fifty-year-old criminal lawyer defined, by the author himself, as disenchanted and rational.
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The chance meeting “in a squalid court” with Giulia, a beautiful, charming and spontaneous woman who instantly falls in love with him, is the beginning of a man’s change. The simple and direct narrator takes us on a journey through the description of smells and flavors rendered in an absolutely realistic way in a journey that leads from Naples to Pachino towards the island of the Currents where the Ionian Sea embraces the Mediterranean.
A journey where time is one of the protagonists, not visible but well marked, in which the characters who accompany Luca move, leading him to the absolutely unpostponable moment of considering his time. Everything can change, in a decidedly surprising ending!
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