SMALL KARMA (Piccolo Karma) by Carlo Coccioli

"Piccolo Karma", universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of Coccioli’s
production, is the diary of the year 1987 he spent in his home in San Antonio,
Texas.
After many novels and essays, Coccioli experiments the short form, in particular the
fragmented and personal one of the diary. A “minutiary”, a diary of the small things
marked in sequences of minutes: this and much more is Piccolo Karma. The reader
follows the flow of the author’s thoughts unfolded among the problems tormenting him
throughout his life - first of all, the search of that divine he had never ceased to
pursue - and exactly the minute issue of everyday’s life: the painful disappearance
of his dog Oliver, the caring of the garden in his home of San Antonio, the work of
journalist, the thoughts on nature and animals which
anticipated the contemporary debate on the environment.