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The Colours of Air

What happens when the universe of rules, reason, order and controlled disorder comes apart? How do intellectuals – devoted to inquiry and reflection, offering work and refuge to the displaced – react when they are displaced themselves? Losing their certainties, they are forced to return to an environment rich in its alien culture, but threatening and indecipherable. This novella travels with two sophisticates and their company to this new, alarming context, where there’s only a wavering refrain from an ambiguous past.

John Fraser

John Fraser started his life in London. He worked and wrote on politics and philosophy in universities in the UK, Canada and Italy. He also travelled widely in the USSR and the Balkans and lived in Rome in the ’70s. In 1980, he moved to a small village in Central Italy, where he has lived since. In Italy, he was sporadically employed as a freelance classical musician. He has written fiction since adolescence, where he tries to combine or evade conventional genres.

Austin Macauley Publishers