Luciano Ragno’s latest novel “Those mint green eyes”

There may be the story of touring around the globe as a reporter for his newspaper, which strikes in hopes of assembly the bike woman Elena once more after a visit to Italy. And after every “journey”, Andrea returns to Rome to belief the Marsican brown bear Venanzio in a cage on the zoo, describing spasms of affection for “These mint inexperienced eyes” for which the novel is called. Luciano Spider (Lupi editore; November 2022) What a reporter he actually was, and he is performed it for his newspaper everywhere in the planet and has performed it once more.

He writes that now on the verge of ninety, he rushed one after one other to satisfy Elena’s “inexperienced eyes” once more. Comply with excursions from Rome to Satan’s Island in French Guiana, residence to the mute grief of Papillon. From the desert of Mali to the enchanted sea of ​​Kenya, the story unfolds amid style reveals, implausible encounters and spies’ intrigues. There’s additionally a homicide in “These Mint Eyes.”

And quotes initially of every chapter: “Each eye takes every part”, the phrases of the poet and author Gianni Rodari for kids and past. Ragno additionally borrows from actor Gino Cervi to explain his love: “The most typical eye illness is love at first sight”. Thus, the creator, the dean of Roman journalists, treats love like a twenty-year-old baby on fireplace.

And even invokes Shakespeare: “There is no such thing as a stone barrier to like, and what Love can do, Love tries”. Until the tip. With an added twist and thought turned to the pleasant bear who “at all times gave good recommendation”.