New Arrivals
Fiction
“Once upon a time, the country we know now as Italy did not yet exist. Instead there wer only five great powers: Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, and Rome…. Church and State wrestledfor sovereignty. … It was side by many a disillusioned citizen that everything in Rome was for sale…Italian Family offered gifts and bribes to get their sons named to the college of cardinals. This was the time of the Family..”
“It is 1963 in New York… Things have never been better for the Corleones. They have legitimized the Family. People waited outside the Family to ask for favours…”
“Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay – In Rshid’s room, a young lady holds a long stemmed pipe over a flame as men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. In Shuklaji Street, they say, you introduce only your worst enemy to opium…But then…”