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The Little I Knew
Chi dice e chi tace
Chiara Valerio (born 1978)
Translated by Ailsa Wood
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The Little I Knew
Foundry Editions · United Kingdom · 10 June 2025
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Scauri, on the Tyrrhenian coast, is the last town in Lazio: neither beautiful nor ugly, with a graceless charm of its own. In the 1970s Vittoria moved there with Mara, a girl young enough to be her daughter but not her daughter; she opened a boarding kennel, swam every morning and became a familiar, elegant, evasive figure. Twenty years later she is found dead in her bath. The town accepts the improbable accident and stays silent, but Lea Russo, the town lawyer, with a husband, two daughters and a busy life, who has always been fascinated by Vittoria, cannot leave it alone and starts asking questions.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 276 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2024 by Sellerio
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788838946257 (original)
9781068693489 (Foundry Editions, United Kingdom)
- More
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