{"product_id":"the-twenty-days-of-turin-giorgio-de-maria-paperback","title":"The Twenty Days of Turin -- Giorgio De Maria, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create \"the Library,\" a space where lonely citizens can read one another's personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in \"dialogues across the ether.\" But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library's users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day \"phenomenon of collective psychosis\" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city's occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: \u003cem\u003ewhat's shared can never be unshared\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty Days of Turin\u003c\/em\u003e has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of \"lone-wolf\" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria's vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet--and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing--this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly translated into English for the first time by Ramon Glazov, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty Days of Turin\u003c\/em\u003e establishes De Maria's place among the literary ranks of Italo Calvino and beside classic horror masters such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly imaginative, with visceral prose that chills to the marrow, the novel is an eerily clairvoyant magnum opus, long overdue but ever timely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giorgio De Maria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324095514","brand":"Giorgio De Maria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46819964616932,"sku":"9781324095514","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781324095514.jpg?v=1777654734","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/the-twenty-days-of-turin-giorgio-de-maria-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}