Saraceno

by Djelloul Marbrook

Not many writers about the Mafia listened to the notorious Frank Costello, Vito Genovese and Tony Gallo drinking marsala and chatting in a kitchen, but Djelloul Marbrook, author of Saraceno, did, and he celebrates it with a poet’s ear in this haunting, unique tale of redemption.


"Not just another run-of-the-mill Mafia novel."--Small Press Bookwatch

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First published October 8, 2010

About the author

Djelloul Marbrook’s Far from Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press) won the 2007 Stan and Tom Everything Wick Prize and the 2010 International Book Award for poetry. He also won the 2008 Literal Latté fiction award and four honorable mentions in fiction from New Millennium Writings. He is the author of seven books of poems and five of fiction, and three more books of poems and three of fiction are forthcoming in 2018-19. His poems have been widely published in such journals as American Poetry Review and Barrow Street and collections such as New Millennium’s 2017 anthology, Sable Books’ Red Sky (the 2016 anthology about violence against women), and Dove Tales, the 2016 Writing for Peace anthology. A retired newspaper reporter and editor and a U.S. Navy veteran who grew up in New York, he lives in the mid-Hudson Valley with his wife Marilyn.

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