by Nicola Lagioia · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781609453817
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«Ferocity» is the crime novel by Nicola Lagioia, published by Europa Editions in paperback (447 pages, in English).
Set in Bari, in southern Italy, in the 1980s, the story begins with Clara, daughter of a powerful family of property developers, who is found dying and half-naked on a road one summer night; her death is ruled a suicide. Her half-brother cannot free himself from her memory or from questions about what happened and, as he investigates Clara's life, he uncovers the moral and political corruption that underpins the family's rise.
The novel, originally published in Italian as «La ferocia» in 2014, won the Strega Prize and the Mondello Prize in 2015. The English translation is by Antony Shugaar.
For readers of crime fiction and contemporary Italian literature, interested in family sagas with a social and political backdrop.
