The Shadow of the Evening
interweaves the lives of two cousins, David and Alexander, from
a youthful summer spent at their grandmother’s farm in Maryland,
to a dark resolution in Tuscany.
Fifteen-year-old Alexander is a
genius, whose flawed mind is obsessed with the Etruscans, an
obsession that will end in tragedy. That never forgotten “summer
of the Etruscans” will bring David, many years later, to
Tuscany, where he will discover what happened to Alexander and
also reach an epiphany in his own life.
And overlaying the mysteries of the past and of the human
psyche is the enigmatic presence of “The Shadow of the Evening,”
an Etruscan statue, ancient and futuristic, that seems to
challenge our beliefs about the evolution of mankind.
