"The inspector told me about his new adventure. It was 1968, the year the student riots broke out. One April morning, Bordelli woke up with the vivid sensation that spring had come. He felt a certain lightness of being, as if the ghosts of the past were fading into the distance while the whole world was changing at breakneck speed all around him. There were clashes between demonstrators and the police in Florence, but that wasn’t the only thing Bordelli had to deal with." [Marco Vichi]
Marco Vichi (Florence, 1957) published his first novel, L’inquilino, in 1999 (Guanda Editore). His inspector Bordelli, who would return in seven more novels (including Nel più bel sogno) and a couple of short stories, all set in the late ‘50s and the 1960s, first appeared in Vichi’s third novel, Death in August, in 2002. An editorial curator who edited a book on John Fante, Vichi teaches creative writing in various Italian cities. His novel Death in Sardinia (2004) won the Fedeli Prize, while his 2009 novel Death in Florence (Guanda) won both the Scerbanenco Prize and the Camaiore Prize. More recently Vichi has tried his hand at audiobooks, comics and children’s literature. In addition, he co-writes screenplays, edits crime anthologies, and contributes to national newspapers and magazines.
