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The Twenty Days of Turin

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The Twenty Days of Turin
AuthorGiorgio de Maria
TranslatorRamon Glazov
Publication placeItalian

The Twenty Days of Turin is a 1975 novel by Italian writer and musician Giorgio de Maria. Ramon Glazov translated the book into English in 2016.[1] It concerns a man in Turin who chooses to investigate a series of unexplained, violent of events that occurred a decade earlier.[2]

It has been referred to as "remarkably prescient"[3] and has garnered comparisons to the works of H.P. Lovecraft[4] and Thomas Pynchon.[5]

References

  1. ^ Giraldi, William (1 February 2017). "Holy Horror". Commonweal. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. ^ "100 Great Works OF Dystopian Fiction". Vulture. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. ^ Sheehan, Jason (8 February 2017). "Nothing Is Quite What It Seems In Surreal, Unsettling 'Twenty Days'". NPR. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ^ Berard, Peter (7 February 2017). ""Foul, Small-Minded Deities": On Giorgio De Maria's "The Twenty Days of Turin"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  5. ^ Ripatrazone, Nick (4 January 2017). "'The Twenty Days of Turin': An Italian Classic's Chilling Prescience". Commonweal. Retrieved 12 October 2018.