Te Ashi Island
by Luigi Rinaldi
Fiction – Short novel
Necklace curated by Caterina Franciosi
A mysterious and cursed island. A group of kids who make a pact to conquer her.
After the end of the Second World War, the dark fame of a small cursed island in front of the port, Te Ashi Island, disturbs the quiet life of a fishing village.
During an exploration game, on the top of a hill overlooking the sea, four boys make an exceptional discovery. Shir, the leader of the group, intends to use the objects found to dispel the mystery of Te Ashi island once and for all and thus free the village from the terror that surrounds it. But on the island there is something that, perhaps, is not really part of the human kingdom, something dark and terrible and which reacts strongly to the boys’ intentions.
The story thus develops over time and the showdown will perhaps only occur in our days.
The long story is inspired by the famous legend of Momotar, the peach boy.
THE AUTHOR
Luigi Rinaldi was born in Rome in 1967. Graduated in Chemistry, he currently lives and works in the province of Rome as a teacher and freelancer in the industrial waste sector. He has been writing for several years and has collected several awards. Among the most relevant: he was classified as a finalist in the Premio Galassia Città di Piacenza in 2006; he placed third in the 2006 Alien Award; he won the Robot Prize in 2010 with the story Hidden, also a finalist in the Premio Italia; he was a finalist in the Urania Mondadori Prize (2011) and the Odyssey Prize (2014) with the novel Hakkakei; he was a multiple finalist in the RiLL Award and published the anthology Obscuro Prossimo Venturo (Wild Boar, 2018); is present in the anthology Other futures (finalist for the Premio Italia 2020 and the Premio Vegetti 2020) with the story Recovery Test; she won the 2021 Odyssey Prize with the novel Blu Hope (Delos Digital); he won the Odyssey Prize in 2023 with the novel Homological Wave (Delos Digital). His story The crane and the turtle is present in the anthology Yokai. Extraordinary creatures from Japan, relating to the Silk Road series (Delos Digital). Married to Yumi (translator from English to Japanese of several novels by the writer Scott Mariani), he collaborated as an Italian copywriter with the Engine Room publishing house.
EBOOK EDITION
Exit date: April 30, 2024
Publisher: Delos Digital srl
Necklace: The Silk Road No. 14
Pages (estimated): 60
Formats: epub (also ok for kindle)
Prezzo: Euro 2,99
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ISBN: 9788825428643
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