"The two men got out. They seemed to bounce, as they crossed the tarmac road. She glanced at them and tried to swallow the lump now obstructing her throat." A few, rapid dives into the intricacies and absurdities of life: from the difficult renewal of an interrupted friendship to the flaring-up of senseless violence; from the enchantment of dreams to the torments of old age; from a whiff of the secret pleasures of a Sicilian summer evening to the ambiguity of a young woman’s feelings and situation… At times ironic, at others dangerously sad or stirringly positive, these short stories won’t fail to bemuse and intrigue you.