The bishop’s room
“Everyone lives and loves where he is, how he can and when it happens to him.” A little gem to keep among the precious objects of the Italian language. A novel without too many pretensions, if not to tell a simple story, with characters built on the quicksand of human meanness, a sincere mirror of society. Elegant in its pen and tones, even when it tells ugly stories, the book is a manifesto of the...