Ferocity

This Strega Prize winner “ticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully written, baroque, many—faceted depiction of modern Italy” (The Spectator).

Bari, southern Italy: On a stifling summer night, on the outskirts of town, a young woman named Clara, daughter of the region’s most prominent family of real estate developers, stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. Her death will be deemed a suicide. Her estranged half—brother, however, cannot free himself fr...