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Il bambino che sognava la fine del mondo
“The Child Who Dreamed of the End of the World” (title translated by AI)
Antonio Scurati (born 1969)
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At two in the morning a fair-haired boy calls the police: his father is killing his mother. His mother takes the phone: nothing has happened, her son is a sleepwalker who dreams night after night of the end of the world. Thirty years later a terrible suspicion shakes a city in northern Italy: children at a nursery school accuse adults of horrible acts, and fear, amplified by newspapers and television, spreads across the country. A disillusioned university professor, in love with a woman with whom he does not want children, is asked by a major newspaper to investigate, and is drawn into the whirlpool of crime news.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 295 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2009 by Bompiani
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
9788845262418 (original)