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I write for leaving a trace of my existence (Antonio Barcella)

Biographical notes:

Antonio Barcella, is an author of books of fiction. He was born in Rome in 1953, city where alive and he works. He is currently employed in a multinational company of the Information Technology where he covers the role of Team Delivery Manager.
He has a great passion for the reading, preferring Italian authors but not disdaining those foreigners. He has published thin to now four books and some novels getting some important recognitions

(Curriculum Literary of Antonio Barcella)

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Novels:

Inaffidabile (2002)

Lui il computer (1999)

La Missione (2000)

Una visita inaspettata (2000)

"Il Canto del Male" (The Song of the Evil) (written in 2002 and it edit in 2007) - it is the first book produced by Antonio Barcella, even if as third book has been published. It is a harvest of stories tied by a logical thread in a sort of investigation in the fantastic one. (AVAILABLE ONLY IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE)

The contained stories in the book are:

Last day, The Song of the Evil, The appointment, Ghosts in Rome, The Mission, Who was?, A day been born badly, A strange case.

Classified to the 2° place to the 17° International Literary Contest "Giovanni Gronchi" of Pontedera for the section you romance unpublished.

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ISBN 978-1-4092-1408-3

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"Tre nel sessantotto" (2004) - (Three in the sixty-eight) - The sport, the politics, the love: three are the central essences on which rotates the life of Marco, the protagonist of the novel, in one important year, the sixty-eight, for some aspects magic. Three as the girls that are nearby him: Pina, the summer relationship that has left the sign, Chiara, the true love, Jodie, the infatuation for a girl of a fantastic and exotic beauty. Three as the friends that macaws confided, they help him and they grow together with their problems and to their uncertainties… trying to change the world but succeeding in changing only him same.

OVER 400 COPIES SOLD - (AVAILABLE ONLY IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE)

A big result for a book promoted by the small book industry, considering that in Italy the average of sale of a book is of 3 (three) copies and the middle circulation is of around 250/300 copies

It edit from Prospettiva Editrice - code ISBN 88-7418-264-3

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"La collera del cielo" (2006) - (The anger of the sky") – To Rocca Massona, a small and isolated country of the south of italian peninsula, the calm lives of the inhabitants they will be stunned to follow of mysterious events. Michele, the protagonist of the novel, together with his usual friends, will try to pilot the events to arrest the migratory flow that soon will reduce the country to a dead city.
Will the four friends succeed in their intent without attracting on them the anger of the sky?
A scheming history in which the theme of the love prevails on all, but other matters are touched as the popular cult, the betrayal, the fraud, the violence and the life in the country fortress of gossips and loneliness.


(AVAILABLE ONLY IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE)

 

This book is awarded the second place to the 20° International Literary Contest "Giovanni Gronchi" of Pontedera for the Narrative section

This book is semifinalist to the prestigious literary contest "Trofeo Penna d'Autore"

It edit from Prospettiva Editrice - code ISBN 88-7418-447-6. This book can be purchased:
 

"Il quinto Evangelista" - (The fifth Evangelist) - A clochard dies in incomprehensible circumstances: suicide or victim of a ferocious crime? It seems an easy case for the commissioner Gianfranco Pastore but the mystery is near and what it appears simple it will become a complicated puzzle. A strange investigation on a homicide that sinks its root in the History and that it will bring to the protagonist some question as " Who was really Jesus"?. A scheming story of our days that ties Arabic terrorists to characters that seem gone out of the books of history among principles of the church and historical finds that sow a disturbance in the head of the commissioner. We find again in this book many protagonists that we have known on the first book of the author: “Il Canto del Male” (The Song of the Evil).

(AVAILABLE ONLY IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE)

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ISBN 978-1-4092-2303-0

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"Là dove il fiume volge verso il mare" - "There where the river turns toward the sea", the last work of the author, is at the street of revision and will be ready for the second halves 2009. Been born with the provisional title" The boys of street Portuense", it narrates the vicissitudes of a group of young people in the summer of 1982. The protagonists of the story, in their apparent normalcy, they are marked by deep disturbances that someone succeeds in overcoming with the help of the group. A dramatic history articulated by the important victories of Italy to the world one of kick.

It is in course of revision and completion.