“What drew me to this book was the fact that it beat Elena Ferrante’s STORY OF THE LOST CHILD to win the Strega Prize (Italy’s Booker equivalent) in 2015. It is billed as “a combination of Gillian Flynn’s GONE GIRL and Jonathan Franzen’s FREEDOM, filtered through the fierce Mediterranean vision of Elena Ferrante.” I bet you are intrigued now! It is a stimulating piece of fiction which is at once a complex family saga and a profound state-of-the-nation novel.”
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