A science fiction story set in one of the oldest cities in the world.
After his wife's death, Rupert decides to change his life and start your journey: he wants to see Matera again, and ends up loving it so much that he decides to move there. But the city is mysterious: who is the beautiful Daeria Bruno that appears and disappears without a trace? And how will the cucibocca's curse affect his life? In a dizzying series of time travels, Rupert will reveal legendary secrets, being at the center of a timeless story.
Paul Di Filippo is a Rhode Island native, resident in Lovecraft's Providence for the past forty years with his partner of that same period, Deborah Newton. He sold his first story in 1977, and since then has sold over 200 more, as well as several novels, resulting in some thirty books. He hopes he is at the halfway point in his career.
