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I Hadn't Understood
Non avevo capito niente
Diego De Silva (born 1964)
Translated by Antony Shugaar
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I Hadn't Understood
Europa Editions · United States · 2012 · Paperback · 368 pages
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Vincenzo Malinconico is a Neapolitan lawyer who pretends to work to fill his days, sharing an office furnished with Ikea pieces, called by name like family, with others who also pretend to be busy. His wife has just left him, and he tries every means to keep a bond with her and with their two teenage children. Suddenly he is appointed public defender of a Camorra gravedigger, Mimmo 'o burzone, and has to brush up on the law. It is the first of his small miracles; the second is Alessandra, the most beautiful prosecutor in the courthouse, who falls for him, while he reflects on love, life, crime and music.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 309 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2007 by Einaudi
- Author's age
- 43 when first published
- ISBN
9788806189068 (original)
9781609450656 (Europa Editions, United States)
- More
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