The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel [Paperback]

An NPR Best Book of the Year Remarkably prescient. There was a disquieting commonality between its intended place and moment and the one we find ourselves in now& No Gibson, no Sterling, no cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the '80s or '90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this& It was a book written for a different world. And the most disturbing thing about it is how appropriate it is for ours. In An admirable translation& This is a book written in 1975 and featuring no technology more advanced than high-end analog audio recordings, yet it grasps the implications of social media in ways cyberpunk never did& It may be the novel that foreshadows our moment more accurately than any number of speculative fictions&A welcome and timely addition to the weird fiction of distinctly earthly terrors. Giorgio De Marias The paranoia of Almost forgotten to the ash heap of collective literary amnesia, Giorgio De Marias masterpiece oozes with unsettling creepiness and despair as strange gods play out their violent fantasies in an Italy gone quietly insane. This one will slip its way into your darkest dreams.