"The Natural Disorder of Things" is at once a murder mystery, a tale of erotic obsession, and a meditation on order and disorder, on fullness and emptiness, and on fathers and the traces they leave on their children. Claudio Fratta is a garden designer; a naturally solitary man, he is nonetheless a tender, playful companion to his nephews and a considerate colleague. But he's also obsessed with wreaking vengeance on the loan shark who bankrupted his father; pursuing an enigmatic, alluring woman; and racked with guilt at having watched his brother die from an overdose. Set in an Italian landscape both unchanged and deeply marked by the twentieth century, "The Natural Disorder of Things" is peopled with an authentic snapshot of contemporary Italy: wealthy dilettantes, ex-convicts, right-wing secessionists, left-wing conspiracy theorists, and immigrant Moroccan, Chinese, and Sikh workers.
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Review:
Each time the story cuts the surface, there is something beneath it that warms you and makes you cry - Repubblica (Repubblica)
[an] engaging existential thriller...in one sense, a murder mystery, but also a romance, a satire and a philosophical exercise in self-inquiry...Canobbio's voice is entirely his own - Chris Moss, The Washington Post (Washington Post)
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"An engaging existential thriller ... The Natural Disorder of Things is in one sense a murder mystery, but it is also a romance, a satire and a philosophical exercise in self-inquiry ... Canobbio's voice is entirely his own" Chris Moss, Washington Post
"Revenge served cold drives this subdued, smart thriller" Playboy
"Andrea Canobbio straddles the worlds of murder mystery and literary fiction ... a writer this talented deserves to have all his work in translation" Vendela Vida, New York Times
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0374219613
- ISBN 13 9780374219611
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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