Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci)
Procedura
Set in Sardinia, this is a legal mystery seen through the eyes of a judge investigating a colleague's death, with the human relationships beneath the case gradually coming into focus. Against a background of political tension, the novel quietly weighs the feel of truth against the instability of judgment.
Work Information
Death is both a case and a door into the island's memory.
Winner of the 1989 Viareggio Prize, this intelligent Sardinian novel braids together personal history, provincial life, and the ethics of justice. The act of investigating the case becomes the novel's central subject.
Review Summaries
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Some readers value the disciplined prose and the procedural structure, while others find the dense, winding narration demanding. The book is often read less as a puzzle to be solved than as a novel of ethics, atmosphere, and place.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Villard
- Published
- 1993-07-07
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780679400820
- ISBN-10
- 0679400826
- Price
- 15715 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
When an undistinguished judge is sent to Sardinia to investigate the sudden death of a colleague, he must reconstruct the dead man's life and determine whether the death was accidental, suicide, or murder.
Salvatore Mannuzzu is currently the head of the department of law of the Center for Government Reform in Rome.