This collection of awarded Italian writer Mauro Covacich consists of eleven stories. While starting from different motives, they portray anomalous and extreme situations: a group of boys who play a basketball game in Sarajevo; the last memories of a sniper; a teacher who decides to seal his eyes with adhesive tape to fully understand the feelings of the blind student he is in love with; four seemingly uncorrupted young people who end up making the most terrible of perversions.
The stories in 'Anomalies' are more inspired by real life than by fiction. The fracture identified in the 'Anomalies' shows that – in our society – achievements (or failures) do not necessarily follow a straight line of intentions. More often, intentions follow opposing and unpredictable actions and produce alibis for self-justification, waiting for the time to blur the contours of consequences.