Summary
Marta Barone: The Sunken City
After the death of her father, with whom she had a mildly complex relationship, the narrator discovers that in his youth he was a member of a leftist terrorist political group during the anni di piombo, the "years of lead", a period in Italian modern history between 1968 and 1988. In the inheritance, she finds documents from the trial, and does everything to reconstruct a complete portrait of her father. Who was this stranger, forever on the side of the defeated, the doctor who always tried to save someone, who served a prison sentence for helping an armed group? And why did he never want to talk about that time? Turin in the 70s of the last century was the scene of everyday political struggle, mass strikes, assassinations, police brutality, clashes between the extreme left and right, and violence that was supposed to ensure the birth of a better tomorrow, but in the end nothing came of the expected revolution. Little by little, the daughter reveals the image of a complex and contradictory father who lived in a complex and contradictory time in this novel-biography about a man and his ideals.
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