This Strega Prize winner âticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully written, baroque, many-faceted depiction of modern Italyâ (The Spectator).
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Bari, southern Italy: On a stifling summer night, on the outskirts of town, a young woman named Clara, daughter of the regionâs most prominent family of real estate developers, stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. Her death will be deemed a suicide. Her estranged half-brother, however, cannot free himself from her memory or the questions surrounding her death, and the more he learns about Claraâs life, the more he reveals the moral decay at the core of his familyâs ascent to social prominence.
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Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize, Italyâs preeminent prize for fiction, Ferocity is at once an intimate family saga, a cinematic portrait of the moral and political corruption of an entire society, and a âgrippingâ tale of suspense (The Irish Times).
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âBiting social commentary as well as edge-of-seat reading.â âLibrary Journal (starred review)
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âAllows 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.â âPublishers Weekly
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âComplex, darkly absorbing and mysterious literary fiction.â âBooklist