This collection includes some of the stories written when, somewhere between high school and the age when you realize that the quarter of a century is not just a legend, I was experimenting with my passion for writing and searching for my own personal style.
Today I want to introduce them to you, with their flaws and virtues, to stop in time that period of my life and – why not? – for a farewell to the boy I was.
That boy who showed, as a coveted trophy, his reckless literary experiments, displayed on a stall in Via Garibaldi and sold as photocopies with spiral binding in a nearby copy shop.
That boy who spent hours on the typewriter, and who in front of his first word processing software felt the same thrill as when he saw Nastassja Kinski in Cat People.
That boy who stopped writing more than twenty years ago, after encapsulating in one last story emotions that he was unable to cope in any other way.
That boy who is now asking me if he made the right choice.
OF REALITY AND DREAM
Release date: MAY 2019.
Second edition: OCTOBER 2019.
OUT OF PRINT.
Of Reality and Dream is a collection of flash fiction and short stories suspended between the real and the imaginary, in which different atmospheres and genres share the absence of answers, heroes or winners; an introspective narration that unfolds in a dreamlike dimension, at times ironic, with predominantly dark tones.
It was first introduced to the public in 1997 through an independent label that promoted the works of debutant authors on a stall in the historic Via Garibaldi in Turin, obtaining an appreciable acclaim.
Part of the collection is re-edited in 2018, when some of the stories are included in the web app Tales for Underground, a project by Osmotica. Supplemented by The illusion of Free Will, an unpublished novella in seventeen cinematic-style scenes, in December 2018 this selection was published on Amazon in Kindle format, keeping the title of the original collection from 1997.
In May 2019 it was translated into English.
AWARDS
FINALIST in the Indies Today Awards 2020.
FINALIST in the SPR Book Awards 2019.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
“A philosophical, mysterious and highly interesting collection of flash fiction stories … The kind of book that you can’t shake easily out of your cerebral cortex.”
― Maria Beltran for Readers’ Favorite on June 11, 2019 ★★★★★
“Unexpectedly insightful and surprisingly poignant.”
― Nicky Flowers for Indies Today on May 19, 2020 ★★★★★
“Cafaro clearly has a way with words as his ability to describe scenes and entities exemplifies the proficiency of a skilled poet.”
― Literary Titan on June 22, 2020 ★★★★
