Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci)
The Force of the Past: A Novel
A novel in which a chance encounter with a stranger begins to unravel the secrets buried in a man's family and past. A single revelation shakes the foundations of fatherhood, marriage, and memory.
Work Information
A single sentence from the past can collapse the shape of the present.
Sandro Veronesi's novel begins when a man living in Rome is unsettled by a stranger's revelation about his father's past. It follows, with sharp psychological detail, the collapse of family memory and self-image.
Review Summaries
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Readers appreciate the way a family secret eats into the protagonist's present. Many are drawn to the balance between suspense and introspection.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Ecco Pr
- Published
- 2003-04-01
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780066212456
- ISBN-10
- 0066212456
- Price
- 22138 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery
In this award-winning Italian novel, an unusual stranger convinces Gianni Orzan that his vision of his deceased father as a distant, cruel Fascist is in fact untrue and that instead his father had been a double agent for the KGB.
Sandro Veronesi was born in Prato, Italy, in 1959. The Force of the Past , is his first to be published in America. He lives in Rome, Italy.
Reviews
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good, not great
the book was new, but there was a little pen mark on the side and the pages were cut irregularly like if not everything went as it was supposed to be in production. no problem to read though and I paid about nothing for it
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Quite simply my favourite book. Ever.
The Force of the Past is an absolute gem. There's no two ways about it - Veronesi's prose is exquisite. If you like Italian fiction, this is as good as it gets. Sandro Veronesi is now one of my favourite authors and I can't wait to .