The Enemy

In this bipartite novel, Emanuele Tonon creates a memorable family epic, displaying a consummate mastery of style. Relentlessly alternating between high and low style, literary and coarse language, prayer and profanity, Tonon turns writing into a complex esoteric ritual to denounce the unbearable unfairness of existence. Factory life, wine, a dilapidated Benelli motorcycle, Internet and the voices of the dead: it all adds up to making this book a powerful, macabre, magnificent heresy. The Enemyis blasphemy, the fierce accusation of a man towards god: an absolute and deceptive god, who would, if he existed, be liable for the hateful crime of sanctioning pain, death and betrayal.

102 pages | novel
Publication date: September 2009
English sample available
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