A novelist frequents a café since he finds it the best place to concentrate on his writing. One day he spots a woman sitting next to him wearing a T-shirt and cargo trousers, a lean, slender woman with the fit, muscular body of an athlete. She drops some coins; he picks them up; she thanks him, which leads to a conversation.
Over the next several days they meet again at the café. Without too much prompting, she tells him episodes of her life leading up to her direct encounter with beauty, love . . . and cocaine.
A sweet, tender tale but also a cautionary tale. For Sara, that's the young lady's name, tells the novelist, "There's a saying I like very much. It goes like this: "Don't run faster than your guardian angel can fly."
I've also read Gianrico Carofiglio's The Silence of the Wave. I can assure you, the author is a first-rate storyteller, someone definitely worth reading.
For English Readers, The Speed of the Angel is one of three novellas included in Cocaine, published by Maclehose Press. The other two novellas are Campagna's Trail by Massimo Carlotto and The White Powder Dance by Giancarlo de Cataldo.
Gianrico Carofiglio, born 1961
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