The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria, trans. Ramon Glazov

"In The Twenty Days of Turin, De Maria predicted contemporary society’s loneliness, cruelty, and voyeurism decades early and with unnerving accuracy—a haunting, eerily prescient novel." – Carmen Machado

In his chilling 1977 novel The Twenty Days of Turin, translated into English from the Italian in 2016, Giorgio De Maria follows an unnamed investigator drawn into the lingering aftermath of a horrific, unexplained phenomenon that terrorized the Italian city a decade prior.

While looking into the bizarre string of brutal murders and mass psychosis that once gripped Turin, the narrator uncovers the existence of a sinister Library: an unofficial, sprawling repository where citizens voluntarily submitted their darkest, most disturbing diaries.

As he delves deeper into the city's repressed trauma and paranoid silence, his obsessive quest for the truth sets off a surreal and terrifying exploration of creeping fascism, collective madness, and the monstrous power of buried secrets.

"A chilling novel that conjures up the creepy claustrophobia of The Tenant and the mind-bending epic horror of House of Leaves." — Jeff VanderMeer
"No cyberpunk or spec-fic scribbler of the '80s or '90s ever captured the poisoned zeitgeist of social media better than this." — NPR
"A book dipped in the stream of cruel and timely metaphors." — La Stampa