Lontano da casa

A highly topical noir in which the protagonists, two very different women, united in their search for the truth, investigate the murder of an immigrant. The novel is set on the outskirts of a city, which, like any other outskirts of a city, is seething with poverty, violence and forced coexistence, but where there are still people willing to hold out a hand to you.

When she comes home after a day at work, Jasmina Nazeri does not suspect that there are police officers waiting for her. A black man has been killed, they say. He is naked, without any ID and she may be the only one able to identify him since she knows everybody in that district. In that tormented body, she recognises Taiwo and even though she hadn’t seen him after their relationship ended, she knows he wasn’t the kind to keep bad company. How can such a horrible fate befall him? And how do you obtain justice for someone who, as far as Society is concerned, does not exist? Jasmina is a young woman of Iranian origin: she knows how hard it is to get respect, opportunities or even just to be heard. This is why she devotes her life to helping others, teaching Italian to immigrants and doing whatever she can for those who need it. The same may not be said for Pandora Magrelli, a police inspector with a different concept of tolerance and an astounding lack of sensitivity to pain. Each for reasons of her own, they intend to discover the truth, even if this means becoming allies.

A relentless plot and an extraordinary ability to probe the depths of the human spirit and of our society.