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Dolce Vita 1959-1979: 1959-1979
Paperback
Series: La Bleue
ISBN13: 9782234060876
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Rights sold to: Italy (Angelo Colla)
Under option in: The Netherlands
2010. Prince Malo confides in the priest Saverio. He knows his life is coming to an end and confesses his loose life - the decadent lifestyle of an aristocrat - and the highly political secrets he had never revealed until now. He is one of the last to witness the most glamorous and the darkest years of Italy. Why and how the country we have loved so much could succumb to the Red terror after experiencing the Black one?
Written like a movie scenario with flashback and sequence shots, this investigative book Dolce Vita tells us the story of Italy between 1959 and 1979. Loose morals, financial scandals, the Red Brigades, Moro's kidnapping and murder, the death of the director and poet Pasolini, the Cosa Nostra, the Vatican... The author refers to all the major affairs that took place in Italy for twenty years. As the reader progresses into the novel, a trail of blood appears little by little between the Vatican, the Masonic Lodge shifting P2 and Mafia. Meanwhile a powerful America is entering the scene, helping Italy towards freedom, while discretely enslaving it.
The novel Dolce Vita draws the fascinating portrait of this extremely romantic European country, and enlightens about the Italy of today, the Italy ruled by a tragicomic Berlusconi. This story told by the last Leopard, gives a bittersweet taste and a poisonous charm to an infinite end-of-reign. This is an exciting and passionate book that allows the reader to understand that Italy and the Italy of the Berlusconi era.
Simonetta Greggio is an Italian novelist who writes in French. She has worked as a journalist for many years, including at Le Figaro,
La Repubblica and Télérama. She is the author of three novels, published by Stock: La douceur des hommes (2005), Col de l'Ange
(2007) and Les mains nues (2009).
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