Un affare balcanico
by Zandel, Diego
End of April 1997. After a long negotiation, Telecom Italia (with the Greek OTE) acquires 49 per cent of the shares in Telekom Serbia. The deal, in which the two countries’ secret services were also involved, was
facilitated by strange characters, linked to Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. The Italian company pays an enormous sum, which Milošević demands in cash and which is delivered to him by private jet in eighteen jute sacks from the Serbian Post Office. Un affare balcanico is inspired by that disquieting trans action and the author, at the time in charge of Telecom Italia’s Corporate Press, mixes historical truth and fiction, untangling mysterious women, dancing bears, Serbian folk singers and Kalashnikov volleys to offer the reader captivating pages.
- Publishing house Voland
- Year of publication 2024
- Number of pages 200
- ISBN 9788862435567
- Foreign Rights Voland Edizioni Srl diritti@voland.it
- Price 18.00
Zandel, Diego
Diego Zandel, son of Fiuman exiles, was born in 1948 in Servigliano’s refugee camp. He has written several novels, including Massacro per un presidente (Mondadori, 1981), I confini dell’odio (Gammarò, 2022), Il fratello greco (Hacca, 2010), I Itestimoni muti (Mursia, 2011), Eredità colpevole (Voland, 2023). Expert of Balkanic history, he is also one of the authors of the docufilm Hotel Sarajevo, produced by Rai Cinema (2022).
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