The Wooden Throne

THE WOODEN THRONE tells the story of a young man’s choice between the worlds of creative imagination and physical experience. Growing up in Friuli early in this century, Giuliano leaves his native village in pursuit of his beautiful young mistress and of his own past. So begins a series of adventures in which the mountain landscapes, the tiny village he finds, and the people he meets belong to a strange world of fable. As Giuliano slowly unravels the identity of his new lover, her myth-weaving grandfather, and their mysterious community, the reader senses them all as remote and archaic, nowhere and everywhere, evanescent and eternal at the same time.