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La colpa
“The Guilt” (title translated by AI)
Lorenza Ghinelli (born 1981)
English editions
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Estefan hides an unspeakable secret, a macabre childhood memory that haunts him: perhaps he committed a terrible crime, or perhaps his memory is lying. Either way, he does not know why his mother and father stopped loving him. His best friend Martino keeps a terrible secret too, and the evil they share has bound them together in silence. Then Estefan's path crosses that of Greta, a nine-year-old who has lost both parents and lives like a prisoner in her grandfather's house, in the countryside amid a decaying industrial fringe. Their meeting, born of yet another act of violence, is the first step towards redemption.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 241 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2012 by Newton Compton
- Author's age
- 31 when first published
- ISBN
9788854135291 (original)