Set in the inter-war period, between the late 1920s, when Italy
began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony, and the end
of World War II, when control of the country passed into British
hands. Spina's chief subjects in these stories are Italian military
officers who idle their time away at their club or exploring the
strange lands where they have been posted, always at odds between
the jingoistic education they received at home and the lessons
they've learned during their time in Libya. These short stories map
the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy
Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich
kingdom in the 1960s. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters,
ranging from Ottoman functionaries, to Sanussi aristocrats and
Italian officers, Spina chronicles Italy's colonial experience from
the euphoria of conquest - giving us a front row seat to the rise
and subsequent fall of Fascism in the aftermath of World War II -
to the country's independence in the 1950s. Spina continues his
narrative with the discovery of Libya's vast oil and gas reserves,
which triggered the tumultuous changes that led to Muammar
Gaddafi's forty-two year dictatorship.
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