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Il cinghiale che uccise Liberty Valance
“The Boar Who Shot Liberty Valance” (title translated by AI)
Giordano Meacci (born 1971)
English editions
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In the imaginary village of Corsignano, between Tuscany and Umbria, life goes on as always. People work, wives betray their husbands and men lose fortunes at cards; an old woman remembers the day she was left at the altar, there is a rascal lawyer, two beautiful sisters who excel at prostitution and a little girl at risk of death. In the woods around the village roams a community of wild boars, until one of them mysteriously gains abilities beyond its nature: it can think like a human being and, like us, becomes aware of death. Too human to be understood by its kind and too animal not to be feared, it can read the hearts of the villagers.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 452 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Nature, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2016 by minimum fax
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9788875217174 (original)