The Station
Conspiracy and adventure at Milan Central Station, from where the trains of deported Jews left during World War II.
Milan, April 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte is a young police inspector, who recently joined the Railway Police at Milan Central Station. He has an innate tendency to get into trouble, and begins investigating a case that does not seem to arouse anybody else’s interest: someone has been scattering horribly mutilated animal remains all over the station.
Laura Cordero is a twenty-year-old beautiful woman from a good family; but, she is harboring a secret. She usually calls it “the gift” but considers it more a curse, which she cannot speak of. Laura volunteers at a care center for marginalized people inside the Central Station and has a mystery to solve: she is trying to find two children she saw wandering around the station at dusk several times, alone.
The Station is both a thriller and an adventure novel, a combination of the two most popular genres in literature, in which Jacopo de Michelis moves with absolute freedom, opening and closing doors and passageways, and building a story that carries the reader all the way to the end without a moment’s rest.
Jacopo De Michelis
Jacopo De Michelis was born in 1968 in Milan. Graduated in philosophy, translator from French, editor, lecturer in narratology at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, in 2022 he shines on the literary scene with his impressive debut novel "The Station". In terms of pen span and narrative power, the novel is compared to "The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco.
