Ferocity
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A family wrecked by patriarchal stranglehold; a daughter who both defends and defies her father; and the deep rottenness of a society that bends low to power...make this work biting social commentary as well as edge-of-seat reading...A rich and readable cautionary tale for strong-minded readers.
-Library Journal, starred review
A mesmerizing exploration of failure, resilience, and profound, multifaceted loss.
-Kirkus
This oblique kaleidoscopic approach 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 [...] Lagioia's prose-in Shugaar's translation-depicts a family living far from the ease it projects; loyalties and betrayals painted in shades of gray; and a violently alive setting that plays off its characters.
-Booklist
A deeply satisfying read all its own...A page-turner, sure, but smart, smart, smart.
-Words Without Borders
[I]ntricately planned...renders moral and political corruption's rampant and universal prevalence.
-BOMB magazine
This sumptuous (prose) (...) quickly wields allegory, social realism, domestic drama, and myth to create a layered and expansive novel.
-Chicago Review of Books
A work of startling energy and structural precision, an ambitious novel whose linguistic brilliance is frequently at odds with the twists and turns of Michele's quest for the truth.
-Financial Times
[Ferocity] ticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully written, baroque, many-faceted depiction of modern Italy.
-The Spectator
Ferocity is a portrait of a family tragedy, but also at its heart explores two competing visions of humanity: one ferocious and deterministic, the other transcendent and free-willed.
-The Guardian
Lagioia writes vividly and conjures up an atmosphere of menace with great skill.
-The Mail on Sunday
Lagioia is one of the most interesting Italian authors alive today.
-Michele De Mieri, Domenica del Sole 24 Ore
Lagioia brilliantly demonstrates the folly of his characters: rather than describing them from the outside, he constructs his narrative by oscillating unceasingly between past and future, premonition and regret.
-Emanuele Trevi, Corriere della Sera
A story about family, about wealth, about Italians, about a humanity that is obscenely spent and confounded. A powerful, supremely well-crafted novel.
-Goffredo Fofi, Internazionale
There's something Balzacian about Ferocity (and something that puts one in mind of Franzen's The Corrections). It digs beneath current events, inhabiting a zone that is more opaque and ambiguous than the nightly news.
-Paolo di Paolo, TuttoLibri
Nicola Lagioia's latest novel opens with a scene that is hypnotically, devastatingly beautiful.
-Massimo Onofri, Avvenire
This novel reminds one of the Greek tragedies and those ineluctable questions about the relationship between choice and destiny.
-Luca Illetterati, Alias
Autor: | Lagioia, Nicola |
Nakladatel: | Penguin US |
Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Jazyk : | Angličtina |
Vazba: | Paperback / softback |
Počet stran: | 464 |
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