River of shadows: A Commissario Soneri Mystery - Brossura

Varesi, Valerio

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849164029 ISBN 13: 9781849164023

Casa editrice: Quercus, 2014

Riassunto

Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy, and the river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings, steering an erratic course downstream and away into the foggy night. When finally it runs aground hours later, the bargeman is nowhere to be found. That same evening, Commissario Soneri is summoned to investigate the apparent suicide of a man in nearby Parma. He and the bargeman were brothers, and when the detective discovers that they served together in the fascist militia fifty years earlier, the incidents seem likely to be linked. Resentments dating from the savage civil strife between Fascists and Partisans in the closing years of the war still weigh heavily, and as the flood waters begin to ebb, the river yields up its secrets: tales of past brutality, bitter rivalry and revenge. Valerio Varesi is a penetrating analyst of his country's dark and undigested history.

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Recensione:

'The real coups of River of Shadows are twofold: the author's trenchant analysis of his country's ignoble past, married to the narrative acumen of a master storyteller' Barry Forshaw, Independent. --Review.

Descrizione del libro:

Introducing Commissario Soneri, a highly original, complex creation, in a brooding and evocative crime novel set in the Po valley.

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• Editore: Quercus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1849164029
• ISBN 13: 9781849164023
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272