That awful mess on the Via Merulana
by Carlo Emilio Gadda
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In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective Ciccio, a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband's, discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case, and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth, the impossibility of proof, and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate, showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love.
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Fiction, History, Italian Detective and mystery stories, Italy, Translations into English, Italy in fiction, Italian fiction, Rome (italy), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, humorous, Italy, fiction, English Translations, Social conditions, Social life and customsTimes
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Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana: romanzo.
1987, Garzanti
in Italian
8811667011 9788811667018
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That awful mess on Via Merulana: a novel
1984, G. Braziller
in English and German
0807610933 9780807610930
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