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Publisher
Einaudi
First published
2014
Length
≈ 411 pages
Reading time
11–14 hours
ISBN
880621456X

Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source

What is this book about?

Clara Salvemini is the daughter of a prominent property developer in Bari. One night she walks down the middle of a main road and is hit by a lorry; her body is later found at the foot of a multi-storey car park, and the official version is that she killed herself. Her father, Vittorio, persuades the lorry driver to say nothing. The only member of the family absent from the funeral is her half-brother Michele, the child of one of Vittorio’s affairs, who was raised with the other children and has been close to Clara since childhood.

Source: La ferocia (Italian Wikipedia)

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