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Ferocity: A Novel
Ferocity: A Novel
Ferocity: A Novel
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Ferocity: A Novel

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This Strega Prize winner “ticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully written, baroque, many-faceted depiction of modern Italy” (The Spectator).
 
Bari, southern Italy: On a stifling summer night, on the outskirts of town, a young woman named Clara, daughter of the region’s most prominent family of real estate developers, stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. Her death will be deemed a suicide. Her estranged half-brother, however, cannot free himself from her memory or the questions surrounding her death, and the more he learns about Clara’s life, the more he reveals the moral decay at the core of his family’s ascent to social prominence.
 
Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize, Italy’s preeminent prize for fiction, Ferocity is at once an intimate family saga, a cinematic portrait of the moral and political corruption of an entire society, and a “gripping” tale of suspense (The Irish Times).
 
“Biting social commentary as well as edge-of-seat reading.” —Library Journal (starred review)
 
“Allows the mystery to slowly and captivatingly resolve while offering a layered portrait of contemporary Italian life and the abuses of power that money can excuse.” —Publishers Weekly
 
“Complex, darkly absorbing and mysterious literary fiction.” —Booklist
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 10, 2017
ISBN9781609453824
Ferocity: A Novel
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Nicola Lagioia

One of Italy’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists, Nicola Lagioia has been the recipient of the Volponi, Straniero, and Viareggio awards, in addition to the Strega. In 2010 he was named one of Italy’s best writers under forty. He has been a jury member of the Venice Film Festival and is the program director of the Turin Book Fair. Lagioia is a contributor to Italy’s most prominent culture pages. He was born in Bari, and lives in Rome. Ferocity is his English-language debut.

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    An elliptical, lyrical exploration of family, corruption and living in southern Italy. The translation was not the best but the writing still shone through.A naked woman is run over in the night. Clara is found dead after jumping off a multi-storey car park. Her brother Michele starts asking questions and examining himself and his family.

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