XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
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NEWS
PROGRAM
FILMS
WRITERS
Scerbanenco
Conversations
Chandler Award
EVENTS
HONORARY AWARDS
GALLERY
Milioni di milioni [Sellerio]
In the steep, Tuscan hill town of Montesodi Marittimo, every other resident has a hyphenated last name, which always ends in Palla. These are the descendants of the Marquise Filopanti Palla, a great bon vivant who repented on his deathbed at leaving so many children without a legitimate name. But there’s an enigma to Montesodi: it’s been named the "strongest town in Europe." To find out why, the university sends a geneticist, Piergiorgio Pazzi, and an archive expert, Margherita Castelli. After a few days, they still haven’t seen anything outstanding among the inhabitants, except their strength. The town is a routine-bound microcosmos dominated by two families: the mayor, the honest and straightforward Armando Benvenuti, and his wife Viola; and the teacher Annamaria Zerbi Palla, an elderly widow with a disagreeable son. Then an unexpected and terrible snowstorm hits, isolating Montesodi for days. One morning, Piergiorgio, who’s staying in the Zerbi house, finds the lively woman lifeless in an armchair. It seems like a heart attack, but Piergiorgio is sure she didn’t die of a natural cause and that the murderer hasn’t escaped since everyone is snowed in. Things take a turn for the worse when the local marshal tells him that everyone in town has an alibi - but Piergiorgio. To exonerate himself, he must find the real killer.
A chemist by profession, Marco Malvaldi (Pisa, 1974) is author of novels of the BarLume series (La briscola in cinque, 2007; Il gioco delle tre carte, 2008; Il re dei giochi, 2010; and La carta più alta, 2012), which have been a huge hit with readers and adapted for television, which aired on Sky Cinema, directed by Eugenio Cappuccio and starring Filippo Timi. He has also published Odore di chiuso (2011, Castiglioncello Award and Isola d’Elba-Raffaello Brignetti Literary Prize), Milioni di milioni (2012) and Argento vivo (2013).
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