Robert Girardi je autorem čtyř románů a jedné sbírky novel. Jeho díla jsou často překládána do různých jazyků a zaměřují se na hluboké lidské zážitky a komplexní postavy. Girardiho próza vyniká svou vypravěčskou zdatností a schopností vtáhnout čtenáře do bohatě vykreslených světů. Jeho psaní pro film a televizi dokresluje jeho všestrannost jako vypravěče.
With careful voodoo of schedules and routines, Wilson Lander tries to keep at bay the sense of dread that colours his life. Then he meets Cricket who persuades him to take berth as a seaman on the Compound Interest, bound for Rangoon and points beyond. But the journey turns into a nightmare.
From the author of Madeleine's Ghost and Vaporetto 13 comes a collection of seven novellas and stories that explore through the lives of a variety of extraordinary and ordinary characters, our many moral quandaries. Meet Hans Otto Graebner as he lingers in the beach resort of Ostend, on the North Sea. Soon this haggard SS officer will be dispatched to perform the menial but necessary task of locating and assassinating a degenerate Belgian painter. Join "The Dinner Party," where a man stands adrift in a distinctly Borgesian universe, somewhere at the end of time. It could be the Apocalypse or some ghoulish carnival. He's attending a feast at an anonymous mansion while the fall of Babylon is acted out around him, and he struggles to hold on to the faint remnants of his conscience while the world goes up in flames. Turn to a search for "The Primordial Face," in which two expatriates; one of them mute, go diving for a mythological treasure at the bottom of the sea and wind up competing for the love of the obsessive expedition leader's young daughter. And spend "Sunday Evenings at Contessa Pasquali's," where a man and a woman torture each other with indifference and affection and find that love can be born of terrible schemes.
Eine moderne Geistergeschichte im alten Venedig, in der der Autor die historische Atmosphäre überzeugend einfängt.
Der ängstliche Wilson Lander lässt sich mit der faszinierenden und leidenschaftlichen Cricket Page auf ein ungewisses Abenteuer ein. Sie lockt ihn zu einem Segeltörn nach Afrika, mit dem sein ganzes Leben umgekrempelt wird.