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Quo Vadis, Baby?: Italica Press Modern Italian Fiction Series

Autor Grazia Verasani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 dec 2017
"This delicious novel is a genre all its own - Italian neorealism meets feminist noir. I can't wait for more Verasani in English." - Sara Paretsky At first glance, Private Detective Giorgia Cantini is not a pretty sight as she sits at a bar, downing her fourth cocktail of the night, feeling moody and obnoxious. Brutally honest, she smokes too much, exercises too little, eats on the run, and - the cardinal sin for Italian women - is a messy housekeeper. Yet, despite all that, people trust her and are attracted to her as a confidant. Her stream of unhappy clients comes from the conventional middle-class and upper-middle-class confines of Bolognese families. While the Cantini Detective Agency mostly investigates the tangled affairs of unhappily married couples, Verasani exposes the hierarchies and prejudices of Italian "family culture" that often lead to tragic acts of violence against those who stray from domestic and sexual norms. Giorgia's own family is a prime example of that dysfunctional family culture. The nominal head of the agency is her alcoholic father, a retired major of the Carabinieri. Both her mother and sister Ada are dead, both suicides. Although a true loner, Giorgia negotiates a vital network of artists, clients, friends, misfits, and lovers. What is the dark secret behind Alvise Lumini's fiancée? Is Engineer Comolli's wife having an affair? Will their daughter starve herself to death? Did Giordano Lattice murder his wife? Why is the film professor Andrea Berti pursuing Giorgia? What is the secret hidden in the box of Ada's letters that arrive unexpectedly in Giorgia's apartment? Mixed in with traditional sleuthing we find a novel about character and family history, domestic violence, changing Italy, and the textures of life in Bologna.
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ISBN-13: 9781599103662
ISBN-10: 1599103664
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Italica Press, Inc.
Colecția Italica Press Modern Italian Fiction Series
Seria Italica Press Modern Italian Fiction Series


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Grazia Verasani was born in Bologna in 1964, a city where she still lives and writes. She is an author of novels, plays, and screenplays as well as a musician who composes, performs, and records. She graduated from the Accademia d'arte drammatica in Rome at the age of twenty. After some work with the Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo and with the Teatro Stabile di Torino, she began writing, while continuing her work as an actor. Originally published in 2004, "Quo Vadis, Baby?" was made into a film the following year, and a TV series soon followed. Verasani won the 2011 National Dramatic Art Festival of Pesaro award for best author for her play "Maternity Blues (From Medea)," which was later made into a film that won the 2012 Tonino Guerra Prize for best screenplay. In 2016 Verasani published the epistolary novel "Lettera a Dina." Her most recent novel (2017) is "La vita com'è. Storia di bar, piccioni, cimiteri e giovani scrittori."