The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel,Used
The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel,Used

The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel,Used

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An NPR Best Book of the YearVulture 15 MustRead Translated Books From the Past 5 YearsWritten during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its Englishlanguage debut.In the spare wing of a churchrun sanatorium, some zealous youths create 'the Library,' a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers personal diaries and connect with likeminded souls in 'dialogues across the ether.' But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twentyday '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 citys occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: whats shared can never be unshared.An allegory inspired by the grisly neofascist 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 'lonewolf' terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Marias vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internetand the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharingthis 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 Marias 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.

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