The Twenty Days of Turin

The Twenty Days of Turin is a 1975 novel by Italian writer and musician Giorgio de Maria. Ramon Glazov translated the book into English in 2016.[1] It concerns a man in Turin who chooses to investigate a series of unexplained, violent events that occurred a decade before the setting of the novel.[2]

The Twenty Days of Turin
AuthorGiorgio de Maria
TranslatorRamon Glazov
CountryItalian

It has been referred to as "remarkably prescient"[3] and has garnered comparisons to the works of H.P. Lovecraft[4] and Thomas Pynchon.[5]

References
  1. Giraldi, William (1 February 2017). "Holy Horror". Commonweal. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. "100 Great Works OF Dystopian Fiction". Vulture. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  3. Sheehan, Jason (8 February 2017). "Nothing Is Quite What It Seems In Surreal, Unsettling 'Twenty Days'". NPR. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. Berard, Peter (7 February 2017). ""Foul, Small-Minded Deities": On Giorgio De Maria's "The Twenty Days of Turin"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  5. Ripatrazone, Nick (4 January 2017). "'The Twenty Days of Turin': An Italian Classic's Chilling Prescience". Commonweal. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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