A compelling story, featuring a somewhat unsuccessful novelist who invents a series of pseudonyms in order to pursue his writing career and thus becomes involved in family affairs, rising empires and fading potentates: the story of the Bruegels.
Alessandro Zaccuri was born in La Spezia in 1963, lives in Milan and is a journalist for the newspaper "Avvenire". His novels include Il signor figlio (Mondadori, 2007, premio Selezione Campiello), Dopo il miracolo (Mondadori, 2012, premi Basilicata e Frignano), Lo spregio (Marsilio, 2016, premi Comisso e Mondello Giovani) and Nel nome (NNE, 2019).
A compelling story, featuring a somewhat unsuccessful novelist who invents a series of pseudonyms in order to pursue his writing career and thus becomes involved in family affairs, rising empires and fading potentates: the story of the Bruegels.
Alessandro Zaccuri was born in La Spezia in 1963, lives in Milan and is a journalist for the newspaper "Avvenire". His novels include Il signor figlio (Mondadori, 2007, premio Selezione Campiello), Dopo il miracolo (Mondadori, 2012, premi Basilicata e Frignano), Lo spregio (Marsilio, 2016, premi Comisso e Mondello Giovani) and Nel nome (NNE, 2019).