La Ferocia / Ferocity
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Autor:
Nicola Lagioia
Country:
Italy (IT)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
Einaudi
Publishing Year:
2016
Born in Bari, Lagioia debuted as a novelist in 2001 with Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj (senza risparmiare se stessi).[1] With his novel Riportando tutto a casa he won several awards, including the 2010 Viareggio Prize.[1] In 2013 and in 2014 he was among the film selectors of the Venice International Film Festival.[2] In 2015 he won the Strega Prize with the novel La ferocia (a.k.a. “The ferocity”).[3]
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Ferocity combines the suspense of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, the contemporary realism of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, and the fierce Mediterranean vision displayed in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet. At once an intimate family saga and a cinematic portrait of the moral and political corruption of an entire society, Ferocity is an ambitious, gripping work by Italy’s foremost literary novelist.
Bari, the 1980s. On a stifling summer’s night, on the outskirts of a southern Italian metropolis, the young socialite Clara Salvemini stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. Clara is the daughter of real estate mogul Vittorio Salvemini, patriarch of one of the region’s most prominent families. Her death is immediately labeled a suicide. Her estranged half-brother, however, cannot free himself from her memory or the questions surrounding her passing, and the more he learns about Clara’s life, the more he uncovers the moral decay at the core of the Salvemini ascent to social prominence.
