The Silence of the Wave

(Paperback, UK ed.)

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Every week, Roberto Maras crosses Rome on foot to arrive at his psychiatrist's office. There, he often sits in silence, stumped by the ritualbut sometimes crucial memories come to the surface. He remembers when he was a child and used to surf with his father. He remembers the treacherous years he spent working as an under-cover carabinieri, years that taught him how cynicism and corruption are not merely external influences, but also exist within us. He has lived an intoxicating and crushing life, but now his psychiatrist's words, the hypnotic strolls through Rome, and a meeting with a woman named Emmawho like Roberto is ravaged by a profound guiltare beginning to revive him. And when eleven-year-old Giacomo asks Roberto to help him conquer his nightmares, Roberto at last achieves a true rebirth.

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"A novel distinguished by the natural gift of prose as smooth and silent as a perfect wave." - Corriere della Sera "A literary jigsaw full of plot twists." - La Repubblica.

Author Bio

Carofiglio is one of Italy's best selling novelists. He is also a member of the Senate and was an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari. He is best known for the Guido Guerrieri crime series, his general literary fiction and more recently has authored a graphic novel illustrated by his brother.