Nicola Lagioia – författare & böcker

De levandes stad

Inbunden, Svenska, 2024

249 kr

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"… en insiktsfull socioekonomisk analys av Italien − och ett försök att förstå vad människor kan göra mot varandra och mot sig själva." Financial Times

"De levandes stad" är en dokumentärroman om ett brutalt italienskt mordfall, en resa längs den eviga stadens gator och en undersökning av människans mörkaste vrår.

I mars 2016 gick 23-årige Luca Varani en fruktansvärd död till mötes i en lägenhet i utkanten av Rom. Polisen hittade snabbt de två unga män som torterat och mördat honom. De kom båda från ansedda familjer och tycktes sakna motiv. Vad hade utlöst det extrema våldet? Ingen i deras närhet kunde tänka sig att de var kapabla till något sådant. Fallet skakade Italien och uppmärksammades internationellt. Nicola Lagioia, som skrev för tidningen La Repubblica, intervjuade släktingar och vänner till de inblandade, tog del av förhörsprotokoll och korresponderade med en av gärningspersonerna. Snart insåg han att han måste söka svaren genom en nedstigning i skuggstaden Rom, präglad av våld, droger och korruption.

Ferocity

AvNicola Lagioia

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

168 kr

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City of the Living

A literary chronicle narrating one of the most vicious crimes in recent Roman history

AvNicola Lagioia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

224 kr

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The spellbinding true story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian historyIn March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two “ordinary” young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves across Rome and beyond. After the crime comes to light, Lagioia begins investigating the crime by meeting with the victim’s family and corresponding with one of the killers. It soon becomes clear, however, that to investigate this crime means to descend into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human psyche. Lagioia leads us through a maze of betrayed expectations, sexual confusion, economic grievances and identity crises to locate the breaking point, the point after which anything is possible. Sharp, hypnotic, and devastating, The City of The Living is not just the story of a crime, but of human nature itself: the tension between responsibility and guilt, between the drive to oppress and the desire to be free, and between who we are and who we can become.

City of the Living

A literary chronicle narrating one of the most vicious crimes in recent Roman history

AvNicola Lagioia

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

133 kr

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The spellbinding true story of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian historyIn March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two “ordinary” young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves across Rome and beyond. After the crime comes to light, Lagioia begins investigating the crime by meeting with the victim’s family and corresponding with one of the killers. It soon becomes clear, however, that to investigate this crime means to descend into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human psyche. Lagioia leads us through a maze of betrayed expectations, sexual confusion, economic grievances and identity crises to locate the breaking point, the point after which anything is possible. Sharp, hypnotic, and devastating, The City of The Living is not just the story of a crime, but of human nature itself: the tension between responsibility and guilt, between the drive to oppress and the desire to be free, and between who we are and who we can become.