Involuntary Witness by Gianfranco Carofiglio
Translated by Patrick CreaghInvoluntary Witness is the first book in a series featuring Italian trial lawyer Guido Guerrieri, who lives in Bari, Italy. The author, Gianrico Carofiglio, is a former Italian judge, so the legal aspects of his novels are very accurate and interesting in their own right due to the complexity of the Italian […]
Agostino by Alberto Moravia
Dante Alighieri Society Book Club Friday, July 17, 2015 7 Agostino By Alberto Moravia Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful, widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, she begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. […]
Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni
I Will Have Vengeance—Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni Set in Naples in 1931, the novel takes place during the early rule of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, at a time in which the gap between the wealthy and poor is enormous. Angelo Garzo, the Vice Questore in charge of Ricciardi’s department, “whose life […]
