THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SIGNORA GIULIA is a fascinating book - immersed as it is in the place from which it comes, it gives the reader a feeling of being in somewhere completely different, despite it being translated for accessibility. Coming from a small village as they all do, there is however, much gossip about her taciturn, older lawyer husband about her marriage and the possibility that she had a much younger lover. No body is found, nor are there sightings of her that lead to more than new questions. For much of this time it seems that the Signora has simply vanished into thin air. When Signora Giulia goes missing, police detective Sciancalepre follows the investigation with dogged determination over a number of years. Wonderfully evocative, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SIGNORA GIULIA imparts much information about the society in which it is set in a short, but beautifully balanced novel.
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