Giorgio Faletti EIGHT MINUTES Too Many Years Earlier CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 Too Many Years Later CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 24 CHAPTER 25 CHAPTER 26 CHAPTER 27 CHAPTER 28 CHAPTER 29 CHAPTER 30 CHAPTER 31 CHAPTER 32 CHAPTER 33 CHAPTER 34 CHAPTER 35 CHAPTER 36 The True Story of a False Name ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS About the Author
Giorgio Faletti Copyright © Giorgio Faletti, 2009
English language translation © Howard Curtis, 2011
To Mauro , for the rest of the journey
I feel like a hitchhiker caught in a hailstorm on a Texas highway. I can ’t run. I can ’t hide. And I can ’t make it stop. Lyndon B. Johnson President of the United States
