Ferocity
By: Nicola Lagioia ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony, translator
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781609453817
Subjects: Political corruption; Families; Wealth; Fiction
Work titles: Ferocia
Description: 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