Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a car. A trio of eleven-year-old schoolboys, Nimbo, Raggio, & Volo, avidly follow the news of the abduction as their admiration for the brigatisti grows. When the boys themselves resolve to abduct a classmate & incarcerate him in a makeshift `people`s prison`, the darkness within their world, & the world of the novel, becomes all-pervasive. A vivid & hellish description of Sicily in the late seventies, ” Time on my Hands” is an unforgettable novel from a significant new voice in Italian fiction.