Front cover: Walks Far Woman
Back cover: The Aegean Sea
English translation by Francesca G. Premi
with editor Nancy Eckert, California
Written with ample rhythms, and sometimes having a tight flow of images, this work has also the merit to take you to unthinkable locations and to suggest such sensations, both characteristics found in some of Salgari’s best fiction stories. Here, we have instead a picture quite real and fortunate, thanks also to the fine judgment brought forth, compelling the reader to actually try to emulate it.
It’s the story of a woman, beautiful, in her own right unique; it is the victory of the heart together with a bright mind succeeding over the worldly pettiness, here crushed, annihilated.
Umberto Belluco