Torchlight Parade

By Jéanpaul Ferro

2022

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4.56

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253

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7H41M

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On the verge of WWII, Octavio Poliziano, a young Italian-American from Brooklyn, is sent back to the old country by his immigrant parents to care for his aged grandmother. He is a tenor and a musician. He is in love with the local orchestra conductor’s daughter, Watcharee Benso di Cavour, whose face happens to be disfigured. Life is hard, but good,. It is a quiet life in a stunning setting. Without warning Octavio is thrown into the chaos of war, into a perilous wilderness full of mind-bending carnival mirrors, imprisoned on an island, a witness to genocide, one of the first to discover that Nazi death camps exist, and ultimately stagger through the sub-terrain labyrinth of the desperate Nazi’s at the end of the world where the world of Hitler and all that is good collide. The whole time he exerts his strength to return to Watcharee whom he becomes separated from when the evacuation ocean liner he puts her on is torpedoed. Along the way orphaned deaf children learn to sing, ghosts appear, the Russian army takes Octavio in all the while a stunning ghost story unfolds that leads to a shocking ending that causes everything you’ve learned and experience along this journey to become even more beautiful and haunting.

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Author

Jéanpaul Ferro

Author · 5 books

An 10-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jéanpaul Ferro’s work has appeared on National Public Radio, Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Emerson Review, Connecticut Review, Portland Monthly, Arts & Understanding Magazine, The Providence Journal, Saltsburg Review, Hawaii Review, and others. He is the author of All The Good Promises (Plowman Press, 1994), Becoming X (BlazeVox Books, 2008), You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers (Thumbscrew Press, 2009), Hemispheres (Maverick Duck Press, 2009) Essendo Morti – Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009), nominated for the 2010 Griffin Prize in Poetry; and Jazz (Honest Publishing, 2011), nominated for both the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize and the 2012 Griffin Prize in Poetry. He was born and raised in Scituate, Rhode Island. THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH: https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Blacksmi... THE DEVIL AND THE BLACKSMITH, Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/MEGwnZ_oD3o?si=fgC1i...