The La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University agreeably invites you to a book signing and presentation for “Involuntary Witness,” an agitative new abstruseness by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM at Casa Italiana (133 Fairview Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey).
South Orange -- The La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University agreeably invites you to a book signing and presentation for “Involuntary Witness,” an agitative new abstruseness by Gianrico Carofiglio, Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 5:30 PM at Casa Italiana (133 Fairview Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey). Admission is chargeless and accessible to the public. Reservations a must.
With a acute prosecutorial style, Carofiglio writes crisp, caricatural novels that are as abundant adulation belief and abstract treatises as they are acknowledged thrillers. The characters of “local” abyss are depicted with brisk, sparing book that recalls Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck as able-bodied as such abreast abstruseness writers as Lawrence Block and Joe R. Lansdale.
The featured presentation, Involuntary Witness, is not alone a altogether paced acknowledged thriller, it is aswell a able advance on racism. When a Senegalese pedlar, Abdou Thiam, is accused of kidnapping and murdering a nine-year-old boy, Francesco Rubino, it looks as admitting the adjudication is a foregone conclusion. The boy abolished one afternoon while arena soccer on his own in foreground of his grandparents' alcazar in the accepted bank resort of Monopoli, to the south of Bari. Two canicule after his anatomy was begin down a well, twelve afar north, in the countryside abreast Polignano. The bounded badge accept aggregate the affirmation and angled up some witnesses, including a bounded barman who says he saw the pedlar at the scene. All fingers assume to point to Abdou Thiam. Defense advocate Guido Guerrieri is alleged in to action this hopeless case and he anon realizes he has a behemothic assignment on his hands. Faced with alone racism fueled by contempo clearing from Africa, Guido attempts to accomplishment the abstruse apparatus of the Italian courts. Gradually he finds a way through the administrative process, and bit by bit he cleverly turns the case in his favor.
A atypical in Italy, Involuntary Witness has won several important arcane awards, including Marisa Rusconi, Rhegium Julii and Fortunato Seminara prizes.
Gianrico Carofiglio, complete in 1961, is an anti-Mafia adjudicator in the southern Italian city-limits of Bari. He has been amenable for some of the a lot of important indictments in the arena involving organized crime, political bribery and the cartage in animal beings. Involuntary Witness is his admission atypical and is now the base for a television alternation in Italy.
This presentation is the aboriginal of a mini-series committed to the “Italian Mystery”, in accord with The Italian Cultural Institute in New York City, The Vice-Consulate of Italy for New Jersey, Seton Hall University (The La Motta Chair Lecture Series), Casa Italiana in South Orange and The Center for Italian and Italian-American Culture.
For added information, amuse acquaintance Daniela Puglielli at 908 212 7846 or 973 571 1995.
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