The Twenty Days of Turin SS_Gift_Guide author of Jade City

author of Jade City

“Belongs on your must-read list

—Lindo Bacon

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is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied

The Twenty Days of Turin SS_Gift_Guide author of Jade CityAn NPR Best Book of the Year Vulture * "15 Must Read Translated Books From the Past 5 Years" 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