A Pimp's Notes: A Novel - Hardcover

Faletti, Giorgio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374231400 ISBN 13: 9780374231408

Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2012

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From a bestselling Italian author comes a sharply observed new mystery set in the seedy underworld of 1970s Milan

Giorgio Faletti's first thriller, I Kill, took Europe by storm, selling over five million copies. TheCorriere della Sera, Italy's leading newspaper, crowned him "the greatest Italian writer." In 2010, with the explosive publication ofA Pimp's Notes, Faletti won international celebrity as a writer of world-class, tightly wound, psychologically nuanced thrillers.

It's 1978. Italy has just been shocked by the kidnapping of the politician Aldo Moro by the left-leaning terrorist group the Red Brigades. In Milan, the upper class continues to amuse itself in luxury restaurants, underground clubs, and cabarets. This is Bravo's milieu. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies, and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. When the mysterious Carla enters his life, what begins as a clandestine romance quickly becomes a nightmare that will transform Bravo into a man wanted by the police, by organized crime, and even by the Red Brigades. As the web around him tightens, Bravo will be forced to confront the violence of the times in which he lives as well as his own connections to the political and criminal networks that control contemporary Italy.

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Giorgio Faletti spent years as a successful comedian and singer/songwriter before beginning a career as a writer. His first novel,I Kill (2002), was an international sensation. His fifth novel, I Am God, was recently published in England, to wide acclaim.

Antony Shugaar is a writer and translator. Aside from Giorgio Faletti'sA Pimp's Notes, his recent translations include books by Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Silvia Avallone, Nanni Balestrini (with an NEA translation fellowship), Fabio Bartolomei, Massimo Carlotto, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Diego De Silva, Marco Mancassola, Gianni Rodari, and Paolo Sorrentino. He is the author of Coast to Coast and I Lie for a Living and the coauthor, with the late Gianni Guadalupi, ofDiscovering America and Latitude Zero. He has published with the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and online with the New York Times, among other publications. He is currently at work on a book about translation for the University of Virginia Press.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374231400
• ISBN 13: 9780374231408
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 325
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