Description: Written as a novel within a novel, a meta-fiction of exchange between the two characters' points of view, this book is direct, humorous and full of surprises. In the drama of its protagonists, it captures modern marriage as well as an entire microcosm of modern Rome, a world that is deceptively calm and only apparently in order.
Review Quotes:
"To enter [Malerba's world] in this fine translation is to discover just how engaging an author Luigi Malerba is." Rebecca West, University of Chicago