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Malocchio: The Evil Eye
October, 2018. John Di Palma stands in a hockey arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The crowd around him -- predominantly white and working class -- has come to see its hero and president, Robert Dunn -- a vain, outlandish, hate-stoking, anti-immigrant demagogue -- whose meteoric rise from real estate mogul to the presidency has shaken American democracy to its very foundations. What’s certain is that the people here this night have come to venerate their messiah and make sure his time in office will continue. John Di Palma is there to see to it that it doesn’t.
May 10, 1930. In the small town of Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy, Antonio Gentile commits one of the most shameful acts a man can commit: he does not show up for his wedding. His bride, Ada Antonelli, stands in the Church dishonoured, humiliated and angry. Seeking retribution for this gross injustice, Ada and her mother visit Tomasina Quattrocchi, the witch of Castelpizzuto, who agrees to cast a malocchio on Antonio Gentile. The curse will reverberate through three generations of his family.
How these two singularly unconnected events – separated by thousands of miles and nearly a century – converge, makes for a beguiling, thought-provoking tale. At its core, Malocchio is a tale about justice and fate. It is a story which reminds us that life is not a series of random, purposeless events but, rather, a series of ‘turning points’ -- each twist and turn leading inscrutably to a different destiny.
May 10, 1930. In the small town of Cantalupo nel Sannio, Italy, Antonio Gentile commits one of the most shameful acts a man can commit: he does not show up for his wedding. His bride, Ada Antonelli, stands in the Church dishonoured, humiliated and angry. Seeking retribution for this gross injustice, Ada and her mother visit Tomasina Quattrocchi, the witch of Castelpizzuto, who agrees to cast a malocchio on Antonio Gentile. The curse will reverberate through three generations of his family.
How these two singularly unconnected events – separated by thousands of miles and nearly a century – converge, makes for a beguiling, thought-provoking tale. At its core, Malocchio is a tale about justice and fate. It is a story which reminds us that life is not a series of random, purposeless events but, rather, a series of ‘turning points’ -- each twist and turn leading inscrutably to a different destiny.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2018
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