With the Worst Intentions (Contemporary Oscar) (Italian Edition)

The epic of the Sonnino family, a wealthy Roman Jewish family, from the heroic times of the wild grandfather Bepy, in the immediate post-war period, to the much less glorious days of the rickety grandson Daniel. The adventures, the loves, the obsessions and betrayals of the vitalistic heroes of the Sixties and their golden and fragile offspring, of the young and the old, of the ancient families and the parvenus, of the fortunate and the failed, follow one after another from party to party, from scandal to scandal. All narrated by Daniel's voice in a spectacular novel in which Piperno, a true literary revelation of the early 2000s, has carved indelible figures of the rise and fall of a hitherto unexplored world. A happy and unexpected literary debut, a very remarkable writing for evocative and introspective capacity, in which we hear the voices of Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and the great Jewish tradition, in addition to the mark of a very fresh talent.

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