The incident occurred in Nuoro, Sardinia about a hundred years ago. A prosperous young farmer was shot dead in his olive grove, and his hired hand, a young man called Zenobi, was found guilty. In absentia - he had gone to ground already after being accused of theft and was now a bandit with a price on his head. An open-and-shut case. Only the lawyer was willing to see whether the evidence for either charge stood up against the facts. Neither the courts nor the police wanted to reopen the case; the boy had effectively admitted his guilt by absconding. The lawyer's only recourse was to set up a trap of his own...

The Advocate: A Sardinian Mystery

Marcello Fois

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Random House]

A story of a backward community living with a guilty conscience, a small-town lawyer with a passion for justice, and a boy in love. The incident happened in a small provincial town, Nuoro, in Sardinia about a hundred years ago. A prosperous farmer was shot dead in his olive grove, and the man's hired hand, a boy called Zenobi, was found guilty in absentia - he had already gone to ground earlier after being accused of stealing from his master's flock. The boy was now a bandit with a price on his head. An open-and-shut case. Only Zenobi's peasant mother was convinced that the lad was being framed, and the lawyer Bustianu was willing to see whether the evidence for conviction on either charge stood up against the facts. Neither the courts, however, nor the police had any wish to reopen the case - the lad had effectively admitted his guilt by absconding. And in view of the conspiracy of silence among the eyewitnesses to the shooting, the lawyer's chances looked negligible; his only recourse was to set a trap of his own. Unlike most novels of crime and detection, In the Heat of Summer, In the Depth of Winter is suffused with a beautiful delicacy of narrative texture that lifts it out of its provincial setting and makes it a tale for all ages.

The Advocate

Harvill Press

When Samuele Stocchino is two years old the village sage can already see a heart shaped like a wolf's head beating in his breast: the heart of a murderer. As a colonial soldier in Northern Africa, recruited from one subject land to subdue another, the sixteen-year-old Stocchino learns to kill before he has learned to love, and it is a skill he hones to perfection on the pitiless battlefields of the Corso Front in the Great War. Returning to Sardinia a hero to a pauper's welcome, he finds his family swindled and his sweetheart stolen away by the richest clan in the region, and from one first crime of passion a bitter feud is born. Stocchino terrorizes his wealthy neighbours and anyone who dares to till their land until, with Italy now firmly under Mussolini's boot, his elimination becomes Il Duce's priority. As he continues to elude capture, the seeds of myth are sown and the legend of Samuele Stocchino is forged. Shrouded by mystery and portent, Memory of the Abyss is a stirring fusion of myth, history and fiction, a daring re-imagining of the true story of a notorious Sardinian bandit and a deft excavation of the island's cultural roots by one of Italy's most gifted and celebrated writers.

Memory of the Abyss

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Maclehose

Outro Mundo, O

RECORD - GRUPO RECORD

Memoria del vuoto

Einaudi

Vincenzo Chironi mette piede per la prima volta sull'Isola di Sardegna - "una zattera in mezzo al Mediterraneo" - nel 1943, l'anno della fame e della malaria. Con sé ha solo un vecchio documento che certifica la sua data di nascita e il suo nome, ma per scoprire chi è lui veramente dovrà intraprendere un viaggio ancora più faticoso di quello affrontato col piroscafo che l'ha condotto fin li. A Nuoro trova ad attenderlo il nonno, Michele Angelo maestro del ferro, che gli farà da padre e da complice in parti uguali -, e soprattutto sua zia Marianna, che vede nell'inaspettato arrivo del nipote l'opportunità per riscattare un'esistenza puntellata dalla malasorte. Anni dopo, quando ormai a Nuoro la presenza di Vincenzo Chironi sembra scontata, naturale come il mare e le rocce, la forza del sangue torna a far sentire il suo richiamo. Perché quando Vincenzo conosce Cecilia, che ha "gli occhi di un colore che non si può spiegare", innamorarsi di lei gli sembra l'unica cosa possibile. Anche se è promessa sposa di Nicola, con cui lui è mezzo parente... Se è vero che "la disobbedienza chiama il castigo", forse è anche vero che quell'amore è l'ultimo anello di una catena destinata a non aver fine. Dopo l'epopea di "Stirpe", Marcello Fois - con una lingua capace di abbracciare l'alto e il basso, e di potenziare lo scorrere del tempo - dipinge un mondo in cui i paesaggi sono vivi come i personaggi che li abitano.

Nel tempo di mezzo

Contemporary

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