The Book of Venice: A City in Short Fiction

An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate—the way so many of the city’s residents already have—to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from...