“Alonge is a screenwriter and an associate professor of film history at the University of Turin, and his style is as cinematic as the finest classic thrillers. As characters from the novel’s two timelines converge, every narrative puzzle piece laid down in the past locks in perfectly. In its scope and beauty, The Feeling of Iron also recalls great 19th-century novels like Tolstoy’s War and Peace, while its lyric, spare examination of a covert life is reminiscent of Joan Didion’s Democracy. Clarissa Botsford’s translation is precise and eloquent, never splashy. Every line is a jewel.”
Read the full review in the New York Times Book Review.
