THE CLEARING OF THE DEAD: The burial of the dead awake. (Engli...

A family decides to move to the countryside, in a quiet place: the father buys a house on the edge of a vast forest. They are four: father, mother, son and daughter, they are the classic quiet family. The father made money in unclear business and now he wants to enjoy his luck, the mother is a beautiful woman with many ambitions, hates the isolated house and dreams of the beautiful world of the city. The children are two rascals, loose and fear nothing. The era of the novel is imprecise, perhaps it takes place in the mid-nineteenth century, but the period does not matter: everything is left in the vague specifically, to make everything inaccurate and imaginative. There is no historical or geographical connotation: there is a war between two Kingdoms, but whites and blues are simply called. The house in the woods, but called "the house of the dead" by the people of the nearby village, is much talked about: unusual stories are told. There had been a family massacre in that villa, or so it was suspected. Just the ghostly characters, the spirits (a family of four) will take possession little by little of the lives and minds of the new guests: they will introduce themselves and infest the house, the existences of the host family. Rossi Arduino was born on 9 June 1956 and has a past as both a writer and columnist for a Web newspaper, as well as a magazine contributor. Today he is a free blogger: his Blog, News News, has a remarkable diffusion, with more than 8 million page views, Google counter data.

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