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Fiction, General Fiction

Verdigris

Michele Mari (author), Brian Robert Moore (translator)

Paperback Published on: 02/01/2024

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A Rare Talent

A modern gothic story that shines bright with an original mix of clever wordplay, compelling mystery and unpredictable shifts in tone, shot through with a ... READ MORE

Aaron Myles at Salisbury

Verdigris

A glorious novel, my favourite of 2023. Mari is a magician, with a mischievous glint in the eye and shadows at his back. This is the story of a teenage bo... READ MORE

John - Glasgow Braehead at Glasgow

Another masterpiece from a literary genius

Among the promotional material for this novel are a couple of assertions that Michele Mari is the greatest living Italian author, or something along those ... READ MORE

Sam E at Basingstoke

Synopsis

Winner of the 2025 PEN Translation Prize

Winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Prize

A lonely little boy’s unlikely friendship with his grandparents’ grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and the unquiet dead.