Valerio La Martire's new novel, I Ragazzi Geisha, is available in bookstores.
In an Okiya-House on the outskirts of Rome Seven boys live as geisha under the guidance of a transsexual Mama-san. They tell in the first person their way of loving and selling their bodies.
The brutal murder of one of them will force them to confront their own fragility.
‘I cover my lips with a layer of blue paint. I look at myself again. A distorted figure against a white background. I am the one who doesn't need it, the one who lives alone outside the House. I am the one who doesn't have a name because it doesn't matter, the one who doesn't have a color in the right place.’
THE GEISHA BOYS
by Valeri La Martire
Published by Fabio Croce Edizioni
http://www.edizionicroce.it
Upcoming presentations:
Rome, February 27, 2009, 6 p.m. at the Ready Book Store, Via Cavour 255
Turin, May 9, 2009, 8:30 PM at Extreme Café, Via San Massimo 31
Florence, date to be defined
Trieste, date to be defined
