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Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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a Senegalese pedlar, Abdou Thiam, is accused of kidnapping and murdering
a nine-year-old boy, Francesco Rubino, it looks like the verdict is a foregone
conclusion. The boy disappeared one afternoon while playing football on
his own in front of his grandparents' villa in the popular seaside resort
of Monopoli, to the south of Bari. Two days later his body was found down
a well, twelve miles north, in the countryside near Polignano. The local
police have gathered the evidence, including a local barman who says he
saw the pedlar at the scene, and all fingers seem to point to Abdou Thiam.
Defence lawyer, Guido Guerrieri, is called in to fight this hopeless case and he soon realises he has a mammoth task on his hands. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by the recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. Gradually he finds a way through the judicial process, and bit by bit he cleverly turns the case in his favour. Involuntary Witness is not only a perfectly paced legal thriller, it is also a powerful attack on racism. A bestseller in Italy, it has also won a number of prizes including the Marisa Rusconi, Rhegium Julii and Fortunato Seminara awards. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Gianrico Carofiglio, born in 1961, is an anti-Mafia judge in the southern Italian city of Bari. He has been responsible for some of the most important indictments in the region involving organised crime, corruption and the traffic in human beings. Involuntary Witness is his debut novel and is now the basis for a television series in Italy. The
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