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Reviews

"Guglielmo D’Izzia’s first novel is a dish seasoned with mystery, suspense, sensuality and Sicily. A slow train ride, an unscheduled stop in a southern Italian town inhabited by a collection of unpredictable characters who leap into your imagination with more fervor than the heat and fever of a Sicilian sun. This darkly lit mystery, delivered with quick and natural dialogue, takes many twists and turns leading to the suspense of the very last page. A fine debut from a writer you will hear from again and again." — Gianna Patriarca, author of Italian Women and Other Tragedies and All My Fallen Angelas

"Absurd in all the right ways, The Transaction reads almost like what Kafka would have written if he’d been asked to do a remake of Scorsese’s After Hours but set in Sicily and over the course of a week instead of a night. Its hapless and deceptive (and perhaps above all self-deceptive) narrator is thrown back and forth between situations he claims not to understand, gets into fights he can’t remember, and keeps putting his foot into his mouth, but when given the chance to flee he instead wades in deeper. A strange and dynamic and entertaining debut." — Brian Evenson, Guggenheim Fellow and author of A Collapse of Horses

Author Biography

Guglielmo D’Izzia was born and raised in Sicily. He’s an actor, writer, cinephile, and traveller. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a proud graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. He is currently working on his second novel.