Three characters, three lives poised between redemption and perdition, a great “stage”, Milan. After the debut with the Devil of Malabotta, Messina Paolo Faillawith his new novel “Milan, origami and coffee” (Writerseitor) moves along the thin line that separates the noir from introspective narrative, crossing destinies marked by difficult choices, hidden secrets and paths without certainties. «If this book has a central theme – explains Failla – this is undoubtedly the choice. The choices that each of us does during his path and how these influence us and who is around us. For an eternal undecided like me this is a fixed nail, but obviously the book is not limited to this ».
A story, in fact, which starts from classical canons of overseas genre literature, and then settles on its autonomy, its originality and unpredictability. “My intent – confirms the author – was to demonstrate how possible a story that seems to have come out of a New York publishing house, but that is actually Italian in all respects. It is a book that also speaks of immaturity; Fabio, one of the three protagonists, belongs to a hard world, who forced him to grow quickly. And when things are done quickly there is the big risk that something will not be as desired. And in fact it will be his immaturity, his emotional inability to create the crack through which his troubles will flow. And one could say something very similar also for Giulio, the second of the three. His is a choice taken a long time before and now considered harmless, but which in a moment has returned to venture him around his neck, to put him in front of his responsibilities. As for the third protagonist … I will let it be those who read to judge ».