Novels ought to be banned by law, says the protagonist of the only novel written by Elias Canetti. They ought to be banned by law because they lead us to identify with just about anyone. They accustom us to understanding…
Long live booksellers, who every day dive into the vast sea of books and emerge with just the right one for you. Yesterday I met many of them at the Treccani headquarters in Rome, where they had come to hear…
My new book, Aprile è una strana stagione (April is a strange season), published by Gramma Feltrinelli, is about to be released. It tells the story of an Italian filmmaker who lived in the 20th century on three different continents…
‘In a publishing landscape crowded with reconstructions, counter-investigations and narratives often bent towards sensationalism, “Il garbuglio di Garlasco” chooses a radically different interpretation: not the case as a puzzle to be solved, but justice as a human experience, fragile, contradictory,…
Happy to have become part of the wonderful Feltrinelli Gramma family. I couldn’t have asked for a better home for my next novel. Here at the Feltrinelli headquarters in Milan, with director Giuseppe Russo, for the presentation to the booksellers.
This is a book I return to when I want to immerse myself in the mind and culture of its protagonist, an Israeli secret agent, and in the visceral intertwining of feelings that agitate him, even towards Arabs. I find…
A month ago, I was recounting some details regarding the new phase of the investigation into Garlasco – in which they are trying to clarify the actions of the former Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pavia – which only became official…
“Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” a book with exceptionally clear moral vision. It was given to me as a gift by an American Jewish friend who was passing through Italy and my home. vai all’articolo
Honoured that ‘Il Garbuglio di Garlasco’ won first prize on a podium that also included Francesco Sala (second place with his “Sparire a Palermo – Il caso De Mauro‘) and Costantino Dilillo (third place with ’Malafemmina – Il femminicidio nella…
Sometimes writers are afraid to know what is inevitable: that there is no such thing as “pure” art. None of us are pure or innocent: any word that has imaginative power builds culture, and culture builds behavior. The task of…