Research Catalog

Title

Ferocity / Nicola Lagioia ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

Author

Lagioia, Nicola, 1973-

Publication

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Shugaar, Antony

Description

447 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Southern Italy, the 1980s. On a hot summer's night under a full moon, far from the outlying neighborhoods of a southern Italian metropolis, Clara stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. When she dies no-one is able to say exactly how or why, but her brother cannot free himself from her memory or from the questions surrounding her death. The more he learns about her life and death, the more he uncovers the moral decay at the core of his family's ascent to social prominence. At once an intimate family saga, a history of an entire region, and a portrait of the moral and political corruption of a whole society, Ferocity is an exhilarating, ambitious, and vivid work of fiction by Italy's foremost literary novelist. -- amazon.com

Uniform Title

Ferocia. English

Alternative Title

Ferocia.

Subject

• Families > Italy > 20th century > Fiction
• Wealth > Moral and ethical aspects > Italy > 20th century > Fiction
• Families > Moral and ethical aspects > Italy > 20th century > Fiction
• Political corruption > Italy > 20th century > Fiction
• FICTION / Literary
• FICTION / Sagas
• FICTION / Noir

Genre/Form

• Noir fiction.
• Noir fiction
• Fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: those who know say nothing: those who speak do not know -- Part two: I went mad, with long intervals of horrible mental sanity -- Part three: all cities stink in the summer.

ISBN

• 9781609453817
• 1609453816

OCLC

956480100

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library