{"product_id":"the-city-of-the-living-paperback","title":"The City of the Living - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicola Lagioia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnn Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCRIMEREADS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e AND \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWORLD LITERATURE TODAY\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA spellbinding, best-selling work of true crime about one of the most shocking murders in recent Italian history and set in a Rome that will be a constant revelation to anyone who knows only the city's well-worn tourist paths.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn March 2016, in a nondescript apartment on the outskirts of Rome, Manuel Foffo and Marco Prato, two \"ordinary\" young men from good families, brutally murdered twenty-three year old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves through Rome and beyond. What motivated such extreme violence? Were the killers evil or in the grip of societal evils? Did they know what they were doing? Or were they possessed? And if the latter, possessed by what?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing beyond anything that has ever been written on the crime, based on months of interviews, court documentation, and correspondence with the killers themselves, \u003cem\u003eThe City of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e not only reads like a fast-paced, revelatory thriller in the style of Lisa Taddeo's \u003cem\u003eAnimal\u003c\/em\u003e but is also a descent into the dark heart of Rome--a city plagued by corruption, drugs, hidden violence that sometimes erupts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicola Lagioia leads us through a maze of betrayed expectations, sexual confusion, inability to grow up, economic grievances, crises of identity--progressively tightening the focus of the analysis to locate the point after which anything is possible. As hypnotic as Erik Larson's \u003cem\u003eDevil in the White City\u003c\/em\u003e, an heir to Truman Capote's \u003cem\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe City of the Living\u003c\/em\u003e is Nicola Lagioia's most gripping, bestselling, and critically acclaimed book to-date, the story not only of a crime but of a society and the human natures that make such a crime possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.7 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375275851954,"sku":"9798889660415","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/808a0a0031fa35e1c035ea0ac8280684.webp?v=1777687586","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-city-of-the-living-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}