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Fabio Bacà (born 1972)
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Davide is a neurosurgeon and knows the human brain as well as anyone. Until now that has been enough to neutralize the background noise and the modest threats of his unexciting life in suburban Lucca: his wife's militant veganism, say, or an Aboriginal boomerang that lands in his garden out of nowhere. But beneath those familiar, sedated sounds lies a more sinister vibration, which any pretext, an argument at a traffic light or a quarrel with a neighbour over noise, could make unbearable. His new, enigmatic mentor Diego tries to show him that what counts, and explodes most ferociously, is the part of the mind no one knows.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 279 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2021 by Adelphi
- Author's age
- 49 when first published
- ISBN
9788845935879 (original)