XXIII edition
10/15 December 2013
Ucciderai corrotti e infedeli
Federico Tavola
Federico Tavola
Ucciderai corrotti e infedeli is the second novel by adopted Milanese author Federico Tavola, a nuclear physicist by profession (at the service of medicine rather than bombs). Like his debut novel Che bella vita, it too was presented here in Courmayeur. Tavola takes a place he knows well, Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital (lately at the center of large scandals), and delves into its secrets and (real life) stories. And moves his invented characters through situations whose every nuance he is familiar with. Says Tavola: "The book was inspired by the confessions of a collaborator of Don Verzè, who fled abroad to avoid retaliation from the mob after he was told that killers were coming from the East to shut him up once and for all."
The story which came about from these conversations, minus certain aspects that lawyers advised him not to write about begins with the disappearance of a researcher and several barrels of nuclear material. And interweaves elements of Milan’s new power players: the Calabrese mafia, the Communion and Liberation movement, the old groups of fascist extremism and corrupt politicians.
Tavola is already working on his next novel: a story set in the early 20th century, but before that he will publish a children’s book.
