Can you hear me?
By: Elena Varvello ; translated by Alex Valente
Contributors: Valente, Alex, translator
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781635060515
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social life and customs; Murder; Investigation; Teenage girls; Missing persons; Fiction
Work titles: Vita felice
Description: Elia Furenti is sixteen, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel. Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind. A young boy is murdered, shaking the small community to its core. And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods...
Notes: Translation from the Italian of: Vita felice.

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