Arnon Grunberg

Castle

Mosquitos

An Italian publisher threw a lunch party at her castle south of Milan.
We had a terrific lunch and after that we got a tour of the castle.
The publisher said: “In the winter it’s too cold here, in the summer there are too many mosquitoes, in the spring and fall it’s beautiful but then I don’t have time to come here.” Melancholy at a castle is superior melancholy.