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Barcode30053003842062
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF ROBE
Title Broken truths / Alessandro Robecchi ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti.
Author Robecchi, Alessandro, author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003842062F ROBE6/1/2026 Available

Catalog Details

Personal Name Robecchi, Alessandro, author.
Title Statement Broken truths / Alessandro Robecchi ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Other Press, 2026.
Physical Description 282 pages ; 21 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
General Note "Originally published in Italian as Le verità spezzate in 2024 by Rizzoli, Milan"--Title page verso.
Summary, Etc. "A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism. An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be "a place without truth," he now, in his 70s, has a special story in mind: a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever. Yet just as Parrini finds a producer for his project and begins writing the screenplay with his friend and accomplice Sara De Viesti, another mystery bursts into his life: the murder of the elderly widow Bastoni, who owns the villa next door to his"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Motion pictures Production and direction Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fascism Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Milan (Italy) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft
Added Entry, Personal Name Conti, Gregory, 1952- translator.
Added Entry, Personal Name Robecchi, Alessandro. Verita spezzate. English.

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