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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 the `impossibly beautiful`, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, `there is nothing new to be said.` Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.

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