Alessandro Piperno was born in Rome in 1972. His 2005 novel, The Worst Intentions, won the Campiello Prize for First Novel and became an instant bestseller in Italy, where Corriere della sera described its author as “a new Marcel Proust.” The New Yorker wrote that The Worst Intentions was a “wickedly scathing début, a coruscating mixture of satire, family epic, Proustian meditation, and erotomaniacal farce.” Piperno is the author of two works of non-fiction. Persecution, the first installment of a diptych entitled The Friendly Fire of Memories, is his long-awaited second novel.
Crónica familiar, retrato de nuestra sociedad en los años finales del siglo XX, drama psicológico de gran intensidad, Persecución es la historia de un hombre acostumbrado a definirse por lo que hace y ahora tiene que rendirse a lo que es; en esa rendición se pone en juego su vida...
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