This Strega Prize winner ticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully
written baroque many-faceted depiction of modern Italy (The Spectator). Bari southern Italy:
On a stifling summer night on the outskirts of town a young woman named Clara daughter of
the region's most prominent family of real estate developers stumbles naked dazed and
bloodied down a major highway. Her death will be deemed a suicide. Her estranged half-brother
however cannot free himself from her memory or the questions surrounding her death and the
more he learns about Clara's life the more he reveals the moral decay at the core of his
family's ascent to social prominence. Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize Italy's preeminent prize
for fiction Ferocity is at once an intimate family saga a cinematic portrait of the moral and
political corruption of an entire society and a gripping tale of suspense (The Irish Times).
Biting social commentary as well as edge-of-seat reading.-Library Journal (starred review)
Allows the mystery to slowly and captivatingly resolve while offering a layered portrait of
contemporary Italian life and the abuses of power that money can excuse.-Publishers Weekly
Complex darkly absorbing and mysterious literary fiction.-Booklist
