International Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a surreal story, but also full of humanity,” said Giovanni Nucci, author of The Gods at Six O’Clock, after a suspected burglar was caught reading his book during a robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 38-year-old alleged thief gained access to a flat in Rome’s Prati district via the balcony but became distracted by Nucci’s book about Homer’s Iliad on a bedside table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’d like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he’ll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I’d like him to be able to finish it,” Nucci told Il Messaggero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reports claim that the thief entered the home of a 71-year-old man with the intention of stealing. While in the bedroom he noticed a copy of the book on a bedside table. He then sat down and began to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is claimed homeowner, woke up and confronted the alleged thief, who was engrossed in the book, and he was later arrested after attempting to escape via the balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I thought I had entered up in a B&B, saw the book and started to read it,” the suspect told police, claiming he had climbed the building to visit someone he knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nucci found the incident amusing, noting that his personal favorite deity is Hermes, the god of thieves and literature. “It is clear: everything fits,” he joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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