Luigi Sasta, editor-in-chief of the moribund Italian language daily, Stampa Italica, is caught in a kind of no man's land that is the city of Toronto. Nearing retirement age and suffering from periodic angina attacks, widowed for eleven years, estranged from his beloved daughter, unable to forge lasting friendships in the New World, Luigi meanders on the streets of Toronto, at once seduced and repelled by the steel and glass temples of commerce, longing for a return to some Arcadian homeland that seems to exist only in his fevered imagination. Between Rothko and 3 Windows is an existential meditation on multiculturalism in the key of a literary thriller.

Corrado Paina has published five collections of poetry with Mansfield Press (Toronto) including Hoarse Legend (2000) and cinematic taxi (2015). In Italy, there have been numerous publications including a collection of short stories, several collections of poetry, and the original version of this novella, “tra Rothko e tre finestre” (Ibiskos) published online by Tombolini Editore. He is also a celebrated editor of publications such as “College Street – Little Italy – The Renaissance Strip” (Mansfield Press) finalist for the Toronto Heritage Award.

Damiano Pietropaolo is an award winning producer, writer/broadcaster, translator, and educator, with an extensive background in senior management in the arts (CBC Radio). Translations/adaptations include: selections from Italian Renaissance drama (Sources of Dramatic Theory, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1991); Ugo Betti's The Queen and the Rebels (Pro Arte Productions, Toronto, 1997); The Fellini Radio Plays, (Stratford Festival 2002); Love Letters from the Empty Bed, from Ovid's Heroides, (Canadian Opera Company's Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 2012). Damiano has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, and continues to lecture widely on contemporary fiction.