Chapter Twenty-FourTurin, Christmas 1989
The news programmes on the television for the last few days had been filled with stories of the American invasion of Panama, U.S. troops being deployed to capture General Manuel Noriega, a successful mission that would eventually see the Panamanian d**g lord sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. In Europe, Christmas day itself was marked by the execution, in Rumania, of deposed Communist hard-line president Nikolae CeauÅŸesccu and his wife Elena following the popular uprising that had overthrown his government.
In the tiny apartment home of the Cannavaros in the centre of the city of Turin, however, these and other world events were reduced to triviality by the happy little family that sat around the glittering lights of the cheap but brightly lit C
