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vAleriO vAresi bACklist inspector soneri series FiCtiOn NoIR priZe-Winning inspeCtOr sOneri series hAs sOld Over 90,000 COpies And is trAnslAted intO eight lAnguAges “Varesi just loves the atmosphere of the Po Valley, its climate, its people, its dialects, its charming cities. Deeply mysterious places – perfect for unfolding unbelievable stories and devouring passions. Behind the mask of wellbeing and hard work, a hidden world where crime matures.” L’Espresso “Varesi’s thrillers are told in whispers, with an emphasis on atmospheres rather than mere action, and a celebration of slowness, while awaiting the detective’s insight.” la Repubblica “In the most simenon-like of Italian thriller authors, fog, as well as landscapes and the backdrops of crimes and investigations, are elevated to cognitive method: losing the thread, finding it once more, solving the case by way of haze and empathy.” l’Unità “Varesi clearly has a “taste for symbolism” contributing to the mysterious and distinctively Italian quality of the novel. The seasonal rising and falling of the river water –which paradoxically devours what it has created – is both literal and figurative here and it yields a heavily atmospheric narrative. ” Times Literary Supplement shOrtlisted FOr the 2011 internAtiOnAl dAgger AWArd! il FiuMe delle nebbie River of shadows – 2003 Foreign sales gerMAny Rowohlt, turkey Alfa Basim, spAin Editorial Poliedro, WOrld english rights MacLehose Press (Quercus), the netherlAnds Karakter Uitgevers, pOrtugAl Teorema tv rights sold to CAsAnOvA entertAinMent. shortlisted for prix itAliA as best TV programme prizes nominated for preMiO stregA, nominated for the 2011 internAtiOnAl dAgger AWArd l’AFFittACAMere The landlady – 2004 Foreign sales gerMAny Rowohlt, pOlAnd Rebis tv rights sold to CAsAnOvA entertAinMent le OMbre di MOntelupO Montelupo shadows – 2005 Foreign sales gerMAny Rowohlt, spAin Norma/Edigrabel, CAtAlAn editiOn Norma/Edigrabel, WOrld english rights MacLehose Press (Quercus) A MAni vuOte Empty-handed – 2006 Foreign sales gerMAny paperback Rowohlt, spAin Norma/Edigrabel, CAtAlAn editiOn Edigrabel, pOlAnd Rebis tv rights sold to CAsAnOvA entertAinMent OrO, inCensO e pOlvere gold, incense and dust – 2007 Foreign sales WOrld english rights MacLehose Press (Quercus) prizes Fedeli priZe 2008 and MediterrAneAn literAry priZe FOr deteCtive And nOir nOvels 2008 – shortlisted for the sCerbAnenCO and the AZZeCCAgArbugli Prizes lA CAsA del COMAndAnte The commander’s house – 2008 prizes lAMA & trAMA priZe 2009 il COMMissAriO sOneri e lA MAnO di diO Inspector soneri and the hand of god – 2009 È sOlO l’iniZiO, COMMissAriO sOneri It’s just the beginning, inspector soneri – 2010 4
Publishing date: April 30, 2012 Pages: 516 sVEVA CAsATI MoDIgNANI léOnie 220,000 COpies sOld in 5 MOnths. there’s nO plACe like A beAutiFul, AnCient villA Where tO hide yOur seCrets. In a great mansion at the outskirts of Milan, live the Cantonis, owners for three generations of a renowned pipe manufacturing plant going by the same name. Apparently, the family’s personalities are straight-forward. In reality, each of them hides secrets and scars. With them, it’s a rule: some things, however well-known, are not to be discussed. They even keep silent about the madness streak in Bianca, the dynasty’s matriarch. One day Léonie Tardivaux walks on the scene, a young and penny-less French girl who marries Guido Cantoni, Bianca’s only grand-son. In taking her place within the family, Léonie also takes up its life-style, including the law of silence on certain private happenings. Nevertheless she is a perfect wife, a caring mother, a talented manager, successfully steering the company in the hostile environment of economic recession. But in the meantime, she harbors her secret, which every year, for one day only, drives her away from it all, to seek shelter in a romantic hotel on Lake Como. svevA CAptures her reAders With A sAgA extending Over AlMOst A Century OF itAliAn histOry, And A hOst OF FAsCinAting ChArACters: intelligent, AuthentiC And Assertive Men, AlOngside strOng WOMen, their irreplACeAble AdvisOrs And stAunCh suppOrters. Léonie slowed down and finally stopped at the gate. The imposing mansion stood at the end of the drive, silent and hazy in the rising fog. Léonie’s breath was coming in hard gasps, and the chilly morning air turned her exhale in small white clouds. She bent over, with her hands on her knees, to catch her breath. For many years, even since the birth of her fifth child, she’d been getting up every day at seven, put on her sweats and went for a half-hour run in the park, whatever the weather and the season. With her heat beat back to normal, she straightened up and dried her face on the towel she wore around her neck. Then, with measured steps, she walked toward the grand Nineteenth-century building. The villa, at the heart of the gardens and surrounded by a five-acre park, looked like a gentle giant, gracefully resting. The first sunlight was lifting the fog, and coming closer Léonie saw the portico arches along the bright yellow facade, then the flowerbeds, rimmed with purple heather, the camellia bushes in bloom, the red berries in the holly hedge. The outside view conveyed a sense of quiet and peace, but Léonie was well aware that within the mansion there lived unrest, turmoil, secrets. 3 31 yeArs OF suCCess 3 22 lOngselling nOvels 3 Over 10 MilliOn COpies sOld 3 severAl MOvies bAsed On her nOvels 3 trAnslAted in 20 COuntries Foreign sales pOrtugAl Porto, gerMAny Diana (Random house) FiCtiOn NoVEL Italian best-selling author svevA CAsAti MOdignAni is the pen-name for one of the most beloved comtemporary Italian authors. she has always been living in Milan, a town she is deeply affectionate with and which has become the setting of many of her novels. This is her twenty second work with sperling & Kupfer. www.svevacasatimodignani.it 5
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