As God commands / Niccolò Ammaniti ; translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ammaniti, Niccolò, 1966-

Contributor:

Hunt, Jonathan, 1951- translator.

Standardized Title:

Come dio comanda. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Fathers and sons--Italy--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Bank robberies--Italy--Fiction.

Bank robberies.

Friendship--Italy--Fiction.

Friendship.

Italy--Fiction.

Italy.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Novels.

Physical Description:

406 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Black Cat, [2009]

Summary:

From the internationally best-selling author of I'm Not Scared comes a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons. The economically depressed village of Varrano, where Cristiano Zena lives with his hard-drinking, out-of-work father, Rino, is a world away from the picturesque towns of travel-brochure Italy. When Rino and his rough-edged cronies Danilo and Quattro Formaggi come up with a plan to reverse all their fortunes, Cristiano wonders if maybe their lives are poised for deliverance after all. But the plan goes horribly awry. On a night of apocalyptic weather, each character will act in a way that will have irreversible consequences for themselves and others, and Cristiano will find his life changed forever, and not in the way he had hoped. Gritty and relentless, As God Commands moves at breakneck speed, blending brutal violence, dark humor, and surprising tenderness. With clear-eyed affection, Niccol#65533; Ammaniti introduces a cast of unforgettable characters trapped at the crossroads of hope and despair.

Notes:

"First published in Italy in 2006 as Come dio comanda by Mondadori Editor s.p.a."--T.p. verso.

Includes a Grove Press Reading Group Guide, prepared by Lindsey Tate.

Winner of the Strega Prize.

ISBN:

9780802170675

0802170676

OCLC:

316039829