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Pinocchio's Silence -and- The Exorcism of Pinocchio
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A boy sings like a bell struck in mist, and seventeenth-century Italy falls under the spell of his voice. Nico Paolo-il Cantante di Legno for his stillness on stage-carries a gift that reshapes waking minds, and a grief that opens something darker: a sway over wood and root, over craft and city, as if the world itself has started to listen. When Constel, the cold goddess of stars and balance arrives, miracle becomes mandate. Flesh gives way to acacia and oak. A bronze muzzle seals the voice that once lifted piazzas to tears. Pinocchio steps into the world-crafted, bound, and required to keep accounts no mortal can see.
An old arborist with a killer's past finds him and offers craft, discipline, and knives honed to purpose-training that turns a bound creation into something precise, patient, and difficult to stop. Under Geppetto's guidance, the puppet learns how to move through candlelit cities without begging mercy from them.
The Church starts calling the wooden boy blasphemy. They prepare an exorcism-not to drive out a demon, but to split soul from body and prove that whatever thinks and aches inside the puppet was never meant to count as a soul at all.
Pinocchio answers without spectacle: he chooses what to hurt and what to spare. Yahweh's angels descend in copper and fire to erase him; hunters follow through ruined paths and silent towns. Villagers carve rough figures of the muzzled boy and set offerings at their feet. Pressed from all sides, he wants something forbidden and simple: to choose what he is, and to keep what he loves, without bowing to anyone.
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