The coffee color, title of the book by Arthur Bern and metaphor for life is the thread of the story, and changing its color to match new situations, different emotions, joyful, loving, black, white.
coffee is the hidden hero of the novel, scenes experienced by the protagonist of the crucial moments of its history and that of citizens of the country locked in the embrace of the Abruzzi mountains, with the streets of the village that the whitening snow, silent in winter and illuminated by soft light of summer nights. Dante
Modiano is a sergeant who was recently transferred and who manages to see beyond the blanket of calm that permeates everything up there, and part of a murder dating back sixteen years earlier, in which lie the roots of a case unclear ; idealistic and unwilling to compromise, Modiano wants to go in the bottom of the matter. Similarly
others are situations that arouse more than a doubt, not least the failure of the bank that has affected the lives of the inhabitants of the country and whose epilogue court opens the first pages of the novel.
Modiano's research are faced with the difficulties of those who seek to interfere, who insinuates doubts and desires of the less rational part, because Modiano is a policeman, but also the young scion of a distinguished family of Roman society, a man with normal desires for affection, a simple life and love. Unexpected, it involves a feeling passionately slowly but after struggling to mostrasi, even to define him. Many
are the characters that emerge in the course of the book, and each in his way will be crucial in the development of each other, each giving a voice to sound, creates a different look, but all are equally essential for the overall vision serves the marshal to see the connection between events.
time, along with the tragedy of war, will bring changes, different colors that will be collected in a cup of coffee, as that which best represents each of them, like the deepest desire to share the ritual of coffee always implies.
Sonia Bucciarelli
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