Two years after their divorce, Carla and Vito reunite for a birthday dinner with their three children in Rome, after which Vito goes missing. The hunt for Vito, the solution of the case by the police, the final call by the judges: in cases like this, is there really ever one clear unequivocal truth? "I wrote Una storia nera with one idea in mind: to try to describe a character who was a victim first and then a killer, and the ending would let the reader decide who the character really was. I decided to write a novel that couldn’t be pigeonholed in a single genre - noir, love story, family drama - but used the genres to serve the novel. To really tell the stories of these individuals and their particular world, through their stories." [Antonella Lattanzi]

Antonella Lattanzi (Bari, 1979) had her first two novels, Devozione and Prima che tu mi tradisca, published by Einaudi Stile libero. This year she has switched to Mondadori for her third novel, Una storia nera (Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize, Sila Prize and Restart Prize). Her latest has been sold in over ten countries and will be made into a TV series by Lucky Red. Lattanzi also scripted the films Fiore by Claudio Giovannesi (2016 Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes) and 2night by Ivan Silvestrini (2016 Rome Film Fest. As a television writer, she worked on Daria Bignardi’s program "Le Invasioni Barbariche". Lattanzi contributes to TuttoLibri de La Stampa, il Venerdì di Repubblica, Robinson di Repubblica. She has also been teaching at the Scuola Holden in Turin since 2010.