That Awful Mess on the via Merulana [Audiobook] download free by Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Listen audiobook: That Awful Mess on the via Merulana
- Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Release date: 2009/6/22
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Crime and Thriller
- ISBN: 9781590172223
- Rating: 9.22 of 10
- Votes: 761
- Review by: Helena Barger
- Review rating: 8.65 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/24
- Duration: 5H14M27S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MPC, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, FLAC (compression CBR, ZIP, LZO, TAR.GZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 47 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 35M8S (9.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective Ciccio, a secret admirer of the murdered woman and a friend of her husband's, discovers that almost everyone in the apartment building is somehow involved in the case, and with each new development the mystery only deepens and broadens. Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth, the impossibility of proof, and the infinite complexity of the workings of fate, showing how they come into conflict with the demands of justice and love. Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Alberto Moravia all considered That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana to be the great modern Italian novel. Unquestionably, it is a work of universal significance and protean genius: a rich social novel, a comic opera, an act of political resistance, a blazing feat of baroque wordplay, and a haunting story of life and death.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Political & Legal, Classic Books & Novels, Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: MEGA, Torlock, Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, Hotfile. Compressed in CBR, ZIP, LZO, TAR.GZ, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.71 USD
- Dimensions: 128x205x23mm
- Weight: 420g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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