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The Catholic School
La scuola cattolica
Edoardo Albinati (born 1956)
Translated by Antony Shugaar
English editions
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The Catholic School
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 13 August 2019 · Hardcover · 1280 pages
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Rome in the 1970s: a residential neighbourhood and a private Catholic school where nothing significant seems possible. Yet within a short time this refuge of respectable people is swept by an unprecedented madness: soon after leaving school, some former pupils commit one of the most notorious crimes of the era, the Circeo murder. The narrator was their classmate and has kept the secrets of that education for forty years. Around this he builds a vast story of adolescence, sex, religion and violence, money, friendship and revenge, legendary teachers, priests, thugs, little geniuses and psychopaths.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 1294 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Crime, Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1970s
- First published
- 2016 by Rizzoli
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9788817086837 (original)
9780374119256 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
- More
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