Books with author Alessandro Abate

Saint Petersburg is his home. The Big Neva River is his only friend. Born in the 1950s to a Russian soldier, young Boris Ivanovich Morozov is marginalized for his sensitivity and physical weakness. At fifteen, he faces a traumatic event that opens irremediable wounds in his soul. After a brutal, life-changing experience that makes him a cold-minded executioner, Boris escapes the Soviet Union, and his family ties, for the U.S. Armed with relentless drive and a keen understanding of human psychology, he masters the world around him, climbing the ladder of success in the corrupt and ruthless business world and political scene of New York City, while finding the underworlds of Cuba and Miami ripe grounds for his use. But when his ascent to power seems unstoppable, an unexpected encounter with Mark, a young boy, triggers his emotional conflict with a past that he thought he had forgotten forever, dramatically challenging the last bit of his humanity and setting events in motion that force him, and those connected to him, to come to terms with history.

“This is the story of a choice. Destiny gave me just two cards, and I will play them blindfolded…Destiny will wait and see, giving me the illusion of a path that I can choose, or will act and show me the one it has determined already...’’ The play goes on stage. The success is overwhelming, but it also marks the end of the relationship between the passionate Alex and the enigmatic Lisa. In love and desperately in need of a job, Alex has a life-changing encounter with an old man who lives like a tramp along the South Bank of the Thames. Blinded by the light of a shining world, Lisa turns into an unscrupulous woman, living her life to excess and relying on her breathtaking beauty to fulfill her ambitions. Time goes by, relentlessly, playing with the emotions of Alex and the expectations of Lisa, until undeniable truths, hidden in an old and crumpled book lying on a stall of a little bookshop market, will dramatically affect their life paths.

“This is the story of a choice. Destiny gave me just two cards, and I will play them blindfolded…Destiny will wait and see, giving me the illusion of a path that I can choose, or will act and show me the one it has determined already...’’ The play goes on stage. The success is overwhelming, but it also marks the end of the relationship between the passionate Alex and the enigmatic Lisa. In love and desperately in need of a job, Alex has a life-changing encounter with an old man who lives like a tramp along the South Bank of the Thames. Blinded by the light of a shining world, Lisa turns into an unscrupulous woman, living her life to excess and relying on her breathtaking beauty to fulfill her ambitions. Time goes by, relentlessly, playing with the emotions of Alex and the expectations of Lisa, until undeniable truths, hidden in an old and crumpled book lying on a stall of a little bookshop market, will dramatically affect their life paths.

Saint Petersburg is his home. The Big Neva River is his only friend. Born in the 1950s to a Russian soldier, young Boris Ivanovich Morozov is marginalized for his sensitivity and physical weakness. At fifteen, he faces a traumatic event that opens irremediable wounds in his soul. After a brutal, life-changing experience that makes him a cold-minded executioner, Boris escapes the Soviet Union, and his family ties, for the U.S. Armed with relentless drive and a keen understanding of human psychology, he masters the world around him, climbing the ladder of success in the corrupt and ruthless business world and political scene of New York City, while finding the underworlds of Cuba and Miami ripe grounds for his use. But when his ascent to power seems unstoppable, an unexpected encounter with Mark, a young boy, triggers his emotional conflict with a past that he thought he had forgotten forever, dramatically challenging the last bit of his humanity and setting events in motion that force him, and those connected to him, to come to terms with history.