Le uova del drago

Anything happened in Sicily between 1943 and 1947. Even that the best German soldier was a woman, Eughenia Lenbach, beautiful and young. A spy selected directly by Hitler for an extremely important mission. Codenamed “Dragon's Eggs”: in the event of the Reich's defeat, she would be the one who would have to organize among the younger generation hotbeds of redemption. To help her, just as the Allies land on the island, eleven Muslims disguised as Capuchin friars. Pietrangelo Buttafuoco stages a true, intricate and fascinating story; and he does so by combining a realism tinged with sulfurous moods with the fantastic rhythm of puppet theater; by merging the coruscating, taciturn world of Nordic sagas with the loquacious Mediterranean sunshine in the most bizarre yet coherent union imaginable, in a novel about power, honor and history written by the vanquished.

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco was born in Catania in 1963 and lives in Rome. He is a journalist and writer.
He has published Le uova del drago (Mondadori, 2005, finalist for the 2006 Campiello Prize, reissued by La Nave di Teseo, 2016), L’ultima del diavolo (Mondadori, 2008), Il Lupo e la Luna (Bompiani, 2011), Il dolore pazzo dell’amore (Bompiani, 2013), I cinque funerali della signora Goring (Mondadori, 2014), La notte tu mi fai impazzire (Skira, 2016), I baci sono definitivi (La Nave di Teseo, 2017), Sotto il suo passo nascono i fiori (with Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre, La nave di Teseo, 2019), Salvini and/or Mussolini (ParerFIRST, 2020).
Among the essays, he published Fogli consanguinei (Edizioni Ar, 2003), Cabaret Voltaire (Bompiani, 2008), Buttanissima Sicilia (Bompiani, 2014), Il Feroce Saracino (Bompiani, 2015), Strabuttanissima Sicilia (La Nave di Teseo, 2017); together with Carmelo Abbate Armatevi e Morite (Sperling & Kupfer, 2017).
In 2016, for the seventieth anniversary of the Longanesi publishing house, he edited Il mio Leo Longanesi, an anthology of aphorisms, epigrams and short stories.
In 2018, he wrote the preface to La repubblica dei vinti. Stories of Italians in Salò by Sergio Tau (Marsilio, 2018).

He is the author of plays including: Strabuttanissima Sicilia with Salvo Piparo and Il Dolore Pazzo dell’Amore with Mario Incudine.
He writes for Il Quotidiano del Sud.
His latest novel is titled Sono cose che passano and was published in 2021 (La nave di Teseo).
In 2023 he published with Longanesi Beato lui. Panegirico dell’arcitaliano Silvio Berlusconi.

On October 26, 2023, he was appointed president of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia.