Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio De Maria)

[Mark Thibodeau]

Gonna get that for sure. Thank you.

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:26 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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