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Goodreads asked Carlos J. Server:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Carlos J. Server Years ago I went to Italy, in Florence I bought a local newspaper to entertain myself on the train to Bologna. Among all the news, one caught my attention. In a small town in Calabria with no more than a thousand inhabitants a neighbour had won the Italian lottery but several days later he hadn’t appeared to claim it. That anecdote is a conducting thread to A Lucky Day.

The biggest price in the history of the European Lottery fell in a small town of the French Riviera, the novel starts the day that the prize expires with out the winner appearing to claim it. The plot is just an excuse to enter in the lives of a bunch of unique characters with real situations taken to the limit that turn out to be at the same time funny and exciting.

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