The Lover of No Fixed Abode
Published on 20. January 2024
304 pages
978-1-913394-92-9 (ISBN)
Description
The month, November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by the arrival of a plane and the departure of a ship.
"Doyens of the Italian detective story, Fruttero and Lucentini, offer a perfect blend of the comedy of manners and the macabre..." Tim Parks, author of Hotel Milano
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The Lover of No Fixed Abode
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Carlo Fruttero (1926-2012) and Franco Lucentini (1920-2002) are legendary authors in Europe, known as pioneers of the modern crime genre. The Lover of No Fixed Abode, their most successful novel, is one of six works of fiction they wrote together. It was published in 1986 in Italian and never before available in English. In 2025 Bitter Lemon will be publishing Runaway Horses, their murder mystery set in Siena during the Palio, the city's colourful annual horse-race.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Map
- I: When Mr Silvera at Last Decides
- II: The Little Oak Door, Which Was
- III: I Want to Know All Your Dark Designs
- IV: My Last Normal Hours Strike Me Now
- V: Despite Having a Certain Temperament, as They Say
- VI: I Woke Up Without Reveries
- VII: The Corpulent Hamburg Couple
- VIII: The Jacket of Amaranth Cloth
- IX: The World Can Come Crashing Down on You
- X: He Woke Her Just to Say Goodbye
- XI: Of the Two Things I Had Begun
- XII: We Left They Leave We Leave We Have Left
- XIII: (Postscript)
- Translatorâ?Ts Note
- Sentimental Index of Names, Places and Notable Things
- About the Author
- Copyright
