The keeper of ruins and other inventions (1994)
The keeper of ruins and other inventions is a 1994 Italian-language fiction, short stories (single author) book written by Gesualdo Bufalino.
In this collection of twenty-odd short stories the situations vary - the reader is invited to consider Noah's Ark as it first takes the ground after the Flood, and to experience a brush with Jack the Ripper in foggy Victorian London.