Set against the stunning Sardinian landscape of rugged mountains and villages lost in time, this internationally bestselling novel is a multi-generational family saga about love, lust and country.
First published in the Paris Review in three parts, one of which was selected for a National Magazine Award and another for the O. Henry Prize, In a Strange Room has recently been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
“This is Weldon back to her best - an apocalypse-very-soon-from-now delivered with her trademark warm-hearted cynicism and bone-dry wit.”—The Daily Mail
2010, pp. 208, $ 15.00 Region: Italy Book collection: World Noir
“Carlotto is a master of the genre. He keeps the reader on the edge of his seat until the very end with compact, incisive storytelling.” —Il Giornale di Vicenza