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CRIMINI: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction
by: Giancarlo De Cataldo

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 853.01083556
EAN: 9781904738268
ISBN: 1904738265
Label: BITTER LEMON PRESS
Manufacturer: BITTER LEMON PRESS
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 385
Publication Date: January 10, 2008
Publisher: BITTER LEMON PRESS
Studio: BITTER LEMON PRESS
Sales Rank: 50521

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent anthology
This is an excellent introduction to contemporary Italian crime fiction containing a range of writers at the top of their form who have here produced short stories which are at once highly varied in approach and extremely powerful. The translator, Andrew Brown, has done a terrific job and I recommend this book wholeheartedly.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great Introduction to Modern Italian Crime Fiction
Italian crime fiction has been gaining a higher profile in the English-reading world in the last five years, and this anthology (originally published in Italy in 2005) showcases all the big names (except Giancarlo Carofiglio), plus a few who've yet to previously appear in English. In his introduction, editor and contributor Giancarlo De Cataldo identifies three themes that unite the nine stories: corruption (financial and moral), foreigners (recent waves of immigrants), and obsession with success and fame. The first of these is rather obvious -- pretty much all crime fiction involves moral corruption. The second theme is rather more interesting and distinctive, although the stories here tend to incorporate immigrants from elsewhere in Europe, ... Read More:

 



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