The City of the Living

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1609458311 ISBN13: 9781609458317 Release Date: October 2023 Publisher: Europa Editions Length: 432 Pages Weight: 0.95 lbs. Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0" A CRIMEREADS AND WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023From Nicola Lagioia, winner of the Strega Prize for Fiction, a spellbinding literary thriller based on the true story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history. An intoxicating novel that takes readers on a surprising journey into the darkest corners of contemporary Rome and of the human soul.In March 2016, in a nondescript apartment on the outskirts of Rome, Manuel Foffo and Marco Prato, two "ordinary" young men from good families, brutally murdered twenty-three-year-old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves through Rome and beyond. What motivated such extreme violence? Were the killers evil or in the grip of societal evils? Did they know what they were doing? Or