Broken truths / Alessandro Robecchi ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti.
"A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism. An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be "a place without truth," he now, in his 70s, has a special story in mind: a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever. Yet just as Parrini finds a producer for his project and begins writing the screenplay with his friend and accomplice Sara De Viesti, another mystery bursts into his life: the murder of the elderly widow Bastoni, who owns the villa next door to his"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781635425680
- ISBN: 1635425689
- Physical Description: 282 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2026]
- Copyright: ©2026
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- General Note:
- "Originally published in Italian as Le verità spezzate in 2024 by Rizzoli, Milan"--Title page verso.
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