This is startling, stomach-punching stuff. Intelligent, beautifully written, raw and candid. Basically an eminent Italian father waits for his daughter to wake from an operation on head injuries sustained when knocked off her scooter. This is the start. You imagine her life or death will be your emotional path through this book, wrong. It is the father’s duplicity, guilt and strange passion that he pours out in a confessional story that completely takes over the tragedy we are witnessing. Wow. It won prizes in Italy.
Comparison: Bernhard Schlink, Colum McCann, William Nicholson (adult).
Similar this month: Glen Duncan, Andrew Greig.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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