'In the Heart of the Scorpion', Eleonora Belfiore's unusual noir at the Campania Libri Festival

The new novel by the journalist and blogger presented at stand 16 of LFA PUBLISHER.

Great excitement for the new edition of the Campania Libri Festival that will take place from 5 to 8 October 2023, at the Palazzo Reale in Naples. The kermesse, curated by the philosopher and university professor Massimo Adinolfi, financed by the Region and organized by the Fondazione Campania dei Festival, opens this year in the persuasive and imaginative sign of Italo Calvino.
Between stands, presentations, debates, workshops and meetings, the event focuses on a multifaceted offer with an international flavour but also capable of giving prestige to local realities.

Like Lello Lucignano's LFA PUBLISHER, very active in the area, which launched its challenge from Caivano to demonstrate to everyone that Campania is still "terra felix", fertile in minds and talents that move with the lightness of Calvinian memory between arts, genres, contexts, different but always complementary.

And it is precisely in this prestigious setting, on October 6, at the stand of this publishing house, that “Nel Cuore dello Scorpio” will be presented to the public, starting at 13 pm, the unusual noir novel by Neapolitan journalist Eleonora Belfiore, creator of the blog La kokeshi blu per arte e cultura.

A work embellished by the beautiful preface of the writer and journalist Giuseppe de Silva and by images that characterize in an original way the text, which unfolds to the rhythm of jazz to describe a disturbing love story, with dark implications.

The undisputed protagonist is Hitoshi, a vampire killer with a passion for the saxophone, who decides to retire at the height of his success and glory. But his ability is so well known that he will receive one last assignment, which he simply cannot refuse and which will put him face to face with himself and his past: he must kill the Empress, the supreme leader of all demonic creatures, the dark lady of the night who has already escaped a thousand attacks over the years. Under the deceitful arrows of the star Antares, better known as the Heart of Scorpio, in a vortex of passions and deceit, the story of the murderer intertwines with that of the fascinating Kimber, the ineffable Queen, a new Salome, and her tormented lover, Richard, from Tokyo to London, mixing Anglo-Saxon and Japanese culture with women and men, departed or almost, who believe they are moved by hatred and who instead unexpectedly give in to the only truly lethal force, love, irreverently contradicting one of the key statements of the novel: "Dante was wrong. It is not Love that moves the sun and the other stars. It is revenge".

But will it really be like this?
Those who will walk through the elegant porticoes of the Royal Palace and meet the author at the LFA PUBLISHER stand will have the task of discovering it.