Blurb

Giorgio de Maria – ‘Twenty Days of Turin.’ This work by de Maria follows a man in Turin who chooses to investigate a series of unexplained, violent events that occurred a decade before the setting of the novel. The killings, all done with the same bloody modus operandi, happened in some of the city’s best-known spots, often in full view of hundreds of people, yet no one could really remember anything except for vague hints of shadows sliding among the almost catatonic crowds and the echoes of metallic, grey, and threatening cries. The horror in this novel has been cited as an allegory for the fascist violence that plagued Italy during the Years of Lead from the 1960s to the 1980s.

About the Author:

Giorgio De Maria was a pianist, critic, playwright, and novelist. He wrote four novels, the best remembered of which is Twenty Days. It has a cult following in Italy and in leftist circles.