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Alessandro Piperno

    March 25, 1972

    Alessandro Piperno is an Italian writer whose works are characterized by a refined lexicon and an original style. His novels often explore the complexities of family dynamics and a bittersweet, disenchanted view of life, imbued with irony and self-irony. Piperno's approach to writing is marked by rich descriptions and unconventional turns of phrase, offering readers a profound glimpse into the human psyche. With his distinctive authorial voice and literary craft, he stands as a significant figure in contemporary Italian literature.

    Alessandro Piperno
    The Worst Intentions
    • The Worst Intentions

      • 307 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.3(197)Add rating

      "A resounding success! I'm telling everyone they must read it."-Gad Lerner, Vanity Fair "Sumptuous, comic, tragic, miraculously and admirably uncertain throughout, whether it is tragedy or parody."- Corriere della Sera Italy's leading daily newspaper called The Worst Intentions "a dangerous novel." Right from the title, wrote La Repubblica, this daring book "proclaims the furiously bellicose and iconoclastic spirit that drives it." Daniel is the thirty-three-year-old heir to the dappled fortunes of the Sonninos, a wealthy Jewish-Italian family whose staggering rise and fall during the years spanning the end of World War II and the beginning of the twenty-first century provides the richly colored backdrop to this remarkable tragicomedy. Daniel has inherited his grandfather's extravagant passions and his father's servility, as well as the excesses of his social class. He is also the victim of a crippling infatuation with Gaia, fountainhead of his erotic fantasies and fetishes. This novel will be justly compared to the works of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. An audacious, sumptuous saga about ritual and liberty, love and war, sex and betrayal, set in the opulent neighborhoods of contemporary Rome.

      The Worst Intentions