The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel

The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel
Author :
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 119
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781631492303
ISBN-13 : 1631492306
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel by : Giorgio De Maria

Download or read book The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel written by Giorgio De Maria and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet—and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing—this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever. Brilliantly translated into English for the first time by Ramon Glazov, The Twenty Days of Turin establishes De Maria’s place among the literary ranks of Italo Calvino and beside classic horror masters such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly imaginative, with visceral prose that chills to the marrow, the novel is an eerily clairvoyant magnum opus, long overdue but ever timely.


The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel Related Books

The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel
Language: en
Pages: 119
Authors: Giorgio De Maria
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-07 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes i
Twenty
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Debra Landwehr Engle
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-28 - Publisher: Kensington

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“A book to hold against your heart long after the last page is turned.” —New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs This warm and heartfelt novel will
Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: Jeanne E. Arnold
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-31 - Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of importan
The Twenty-seventh City
Language: en
Pages: 532
Authors: Jonathan Franzen
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent cit
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Eckart Förster
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Förster ex