Harassment

By Riccardo Maffey

Everybody comes up with a different version of their own biography, and the weight of the uncertainties makes it tough for Rudy, a British lawyer of mixed Italo-Somali origin, to choose between starting a new life with Paola, the girl who showed up at his office for advice as a victim of brutal harassment, and quitting law to write a novel inspired by the conflicting accounts he has been given.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Riccardo Maffey
• Release date: Jul 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452389592

Riccardo Maffey

RICCARDO MAFFEY, a member of the British Chartered Institute of Journalists, was educated at the London Institute of World Affairs and at the University of Essex, where he gained an MA. He has been a London correspondent and foreign editor with several Italian daily newspapers. He was senior economics editor with the United States Information Service in Rome, worked as a feature writer, commentator and presenter for the BBC Italian Section, and did a lot of broadcasting and interviewing for the Italian Swiss Radio from London, Rome, Dublin, Belfast, and the US. Riccardo Maffey has published The Sand Against the Wind, Gioco a somma zero (in Italian), Diana Mosley venere del fascismo (in Italian), Dud Cheque, Harassment, Fumando una sigaretta (in Italian), Janus’ Limbo, and Il limbo di Giano (in Italian). An Italian-born British citizen, he lives with his wife, Laura, in England.

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