Carmelo Militano’s latest novel The Patina of Melancholy explores the sensual relationship between two unnamed characters and how memory both preserves and distorts their past and present together. The novel is at once a noir detective story, an exploration of art and memory, and a passionate love story.

She is an elusive artist; he is a writer unravelling her mysterious disappearance from his life. She seeks to understand herself, her art, her unexplainable restlessness. He is an unsentimental poet uncovering their shared travels, lovers, their passionate memories across Europe and Canada.

The novel is also an exploration of the artist’s journey, and Militano’s writing is by turns lyrical, evocative, and erotically charged.

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