ASK THE DUST – Romance, by John Fante

Inside the novel Ask the dust, thou shalt know Arturo Bandini, the protagonist, the writer dreamer son of penniless immigrants (who lives eating Sun oranges), ironic, snide towards their peers, capricious, always conscious and unconscious sometimes arrogant, try to love but don’t know how to do. Thou shalt know also Camilla Lopez, the young Mexican waitress who made frequent use of marijuana, in love with the bartender Sammy, will fall in love with Arturo Bandini and abandon him disappearing forever. Arturo Bandini – an aspiring young novelist son of Italian immigrants – dreams of becoming a successful writer. After managing to publish its own narrative, he moved from Colorado to Los Angeles to try her luck. Here are staying in a Guest House of the neighborhood of Bunker Hill. Wandering the city in search of experience, knows a Mexican waitress, Camilla Lopez, and intertwined with her a hard and tormented love story, passionate and tempestuous: about two lovers looms the spectre of poverty and social inferiority.