![]() ![]() ![]() Originally written in the 1970s as Italy was gripped by neofascist violence, its first English version was just published earlier this year, translated by Ramon Glazov. ![]() So forms the foundation of The Twenty Days of Turin, a cult novel by Italian author Giorgio De Maria (1924–2009). What were those earthshattering roars that would pierce the foul Turin night air, suffused with a sickening vinegar smell? What caused crowds of individuals to take to the streets in shambling, insomniac hazes? Who was responsible for the gruesome deaths of those waking zombies? And didn’t those statues in the town square used to be on the opposite pedestals? Ten years after his city descended into madness, an anonymous company man sets out to write the definitive history of his home’s bloody, eerie crisis. ![]()
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