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Also by Ottavio Cappellani:

Sicilian Tragedee, October 2008
Hardcover

SICILIAN TRAGEDEE
By: Ottavio Cappellani

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2008
On Sale: October 14, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0374531048
EAN: 9780374531041
Hardcover
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Fiction

Balding, forty-something Mister Alfio Turrisi, an up-and- coming mafioso in Catania, has the deep pockets that London’s financial world loves. He, in turn, loves Betty, the spoiled young daughter of Turi Pirrotta, a rival Catanian mobster. Alfio and Betty would seem to be the Romeo and Juliet of this poison-pen valentine to Ottavio Cappellani’s native Sicily. That is, until we meet another pair of star-crossed lovers: gay theater director Tino Cagnotto and his bored and sexy young amore, Bobo. Because the way Tino sees it, the real heat in Shakespeare’s tragedy is between Romeo and Mercutio, not Romeo and Juliet . . . Set in a twenty-first-century Sicily rife with moody aristocrats, vain politicians, inept gangsters, shabby theater actors, and high-tech killers, Cappellani’s hilarious second novel—part Tarantino-style operetta, part soap opera—is also a surprising tribute to the Bard.

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