Persecution: The Friendly Fire of Memories - Softcover

Piperno, Alessandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609450744 ISBN 13: 9781609450748

Verlag: Europa Editions, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

<p><b>A successful Italian doctor’s idyllic life is shattered by shameful accusations in a novel by the Campiello Prize–winning author of <i>The Worst Intentions</i>.</b><br><br>In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Rome, the internationally revered pediatric oncologist Leo Pontecorvo and his family have gathered for dinner. For these exemplary members of Italy’s upper middle-class, the scene is perfect in every way—until a horrifying accusation airs on the evening news concerning Leo Pontecorvo himself. From this point on, nothing will ever be the same.<br>An allegation of embezzling would be bad enough, but to the horror of his family, Leo is also said to have seduced his son’s twelve-year-old girlfriend. The spotlight now turned on Leo reveals every mistake, regret, and contradiction of his lifetime. The details of his private and professional life are debated by both friends and foes, ravenous reporters and punctilious prosecutors. Unable to face the suspicious gazes of his wife and children, Leo descends into the basement of his palatial home—a self-imposed exile in which he attempts to piece together the shattered remains of his life.</p>

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Alessandro Piperno’s 2005 novel, The Worst Intentions, won the Campiello Prize for First Novel and became an instant bestseller in Italy, where Corriere della sera described its author as “a new Marcel Proust.” The New Yorker wrote that The Worst Intentions was a “wickedly scathing début, a coruscating mixture of satire, family epic, Proustian meditation, and erotomaniacal farce.” Persecution, the first installment of a diptych entitled The Friendly Fire of Memories, is his long-awaited second novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Europa Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1609450744
• ISBN 13: 9781609450748
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 389
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