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The Silence of the Wave
Il silenzio dell’onda
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 1961)
Translated by Howard Curtis
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The Silence of the Wave
Rizzoli Ex Libris · United States · 2013 · 294 pages
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For months, every Monday and Thursday, Roberto Marìas has walked across the centre of Rome to a psychoanalyst's office, where he often sits in silence. Sometimes memories surface: of the time when he and his father rode the ocean waves on a surfboard, and of his dangerous years as an undercover officer, when he came to know cynicism, corruption and horror, outside and inside himself. He learned to deceive, betray and vanish without trace, a life that intoxicated and overwhelmed him. The doctor's words, his hypnotic walks through Rome and his meeting with Emma, as damaged by guilt as he is, slowly bring him back to the surface.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 299 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2011 by Rizzoli
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788817052085 (original)
9780847841257 (Rizzoli Ex Libris, United States)
- More
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