The Measure of Time

Writer

Gianrico Carofiglio

Language

English

ISBN

9781913394486

Number of pages

280

Publisher

Bitter Lemon Press

Category
Fiction
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The Measure of Time
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The latest in the highly successful Guido Guerrieri series, shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of time. Guerrieri had fallen in love decades earlier with Lorenza, a beautiful older woman who was in his eyes sophisticated and intellectual. She made wonderful love and opened his mind to high literature, but ultimately treated him as a plaything and discarded him.One spring afternoon Lorenza shows up in Guerrieri's office. Her son Jacopo, a small-time delinquent, stands convicted of the first-degree murder of a local drug dealer. Her trial lawyer has died, so for the appeal, she turns to Guerrieri. He is not convinced of the innocence of Lorenza's son, nor does he have fond memories of how their relationship ended two decades earlier. Nevertheless, he accepts the case; perhaps to pay a melancholy homage to the ghosts of his youth.

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