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La casa delle onde
“The House of the Waves” (title translated by AI)
Giuseppe Conte (born 1945)
English editions
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When the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, not yet thirty, drowns in a shipwreck off Viareggio in July 1822, no one, not even his closest friends, doubts that a storm was to blame. But on the Ligurian coast one man does: a young commander from Lerici, a former officer of Napoleon's navy resigned to the Restoration, who fell under the young poet's spell. Lonely and disillusioned, he cannot set his doubts aside, and begins an investigation of his own.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 337 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1822
- First published
- 2005 by Longanesi
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9788830420977 (original)