A Time to Kill (Flaiano novel)

A Time to Kill

Author	Ennio Flaiano
Original title	Tempo di uccidere
Language	Italian
Publisher	Longanesi
Publication date	1947
Publication place	Italy
Published in English	1950
Pages	385

A Time to Kill (Italian : Tempo di uccidere), published in the United States as The Short Cut, ^[1] is a 1947 novel by the Italian writer Ennio Flaiano. It is about an Italian lieutenant during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War who tells how he accidentally killed an Ethiopian girl while on leave and struggles with guilt. ^{[2] [3]}

The book received the Strega Prize. ^[4] It was adapted into the 1989 film Time to Kill directed by Giuliano Montaldo. ^[5]

References

1. "The Short Cut". Kirkus Reviews . 1 March 1950. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
2. Tomei, Renato (2022). "Translation and colonial landscapes: Ethiopia in A Time to Kill by Ennio Flaiano". Forum Italicum . 57 (1): 125–152. doi:10.1177/00145858221130427.
3. Re, Lucia (2017). "Italy's first postcolonial novel and the end of (neo)realism". The Italianist. 37 (3): 416–435. doi:10.1080/02614340.2017.1407988.
4. "Ennio Flaiano, Filmwriter; Collaborated With Fellini". The New York Times . 21 November 1972. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
5. Fabrizio Natalini (2005). Ennio Flaiano. Una vita nel cinema (in Italian). Artemide. ISBN   88-7575-017-3.