The Twenty Days Of Turin: A Novel

"Giorgio De Maria’s cult novel was published in Italy in 1977, at a time when the country was wracked by constant terror attacks and consequent police state crackdowns and violence. Neighbors distrusted each other. The social and political fabric was unraveling. They called it the “Years Of Lead,” and it was the inspiration for The Twenty Days – a spooky, strange piece of magical realism that captures, nearly note for note, the turmoil and chaos of a community whose center has shattered but is being held together by a willful, communal rejection of the breakage. It’s an odd book to be reading at this point in history, but one that is almost spookily prescient of our current time and place."