► BLACK DIAMONDS BROTHERHOOD - ♥ A novel by Giorgio Cajati
●Synopsis●
► At 7 a.m. on a grey December Monday in 1954, a young Jew just come of age arrives in Antwerp’s diamond district …
● It is the start of one coup de théâtre after another, beginning with the discovery of a nutshell and a mysterious-looking “stone” within… ● From the peeling walls and the most unlikely corners of the seemingly forsaken flat come gushing graceless stones of an unknown nature.
And of unknown origin.
… ● inexplicable events, surprises, horrors and happiness…
● love, mystery, schemes, physical and moral abuse …● power, ambition, seduction, dreams, human misery, happiness, richness and solitude mingle and mix, and to which myth & legend, treason & tragedy are tied in…
●THE WORLD OF DIAMONDS! ●
…● a suitcase fished out of the Scheldt …● the body with a diamond in its mouth found between Antwerp and Amsterdam …● two peyos …● the drawing of a dog’s head …● a musical score …● a wig …● a number plate …● a stunning photo
The story … moves through the Paris of existentialism, of Sartre, Greco, Boris Vian and the cursed absinthe painters; through the Swinging London of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, of Mary Quant and the miniskirt, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Lady Diana.
●What terrible secret lies behind the world’s most famous diamond? And the Crown Jewels of England and France, of the former USSR, of the Mogul emperors?
●What unavowable knowledge links the Tower of London, Paris’s Louvre, Moscow’s Kremlin, Istanbul’s Topkapi, Washington’s Smithsonian?
…● makes Ascot racecours, the prestigious Savoy Hotel and the French city of Le Havre so important?
● Who is hiding behind DIAMONDS FACE? ●
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● Above: english cover.
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