Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio De Maria)

[rich]

hellow foax.

Currently reading. highly relevant to our troubled times. worth a read.

rich

'Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult
novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its
English-language debut.

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create
"the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s
personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across
the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions
of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force
has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a
twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly
massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut
down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to
investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to
mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths
the stuff of modern nightmares: *what’s shared can never be unshared*.
An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day... '

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Twenty-Days-of-Turin/
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