The Silver Book

The Silver BookArt, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the illusionist responsible for realizing the spectacular visions of Fellini and Pasolini. Donati is in Venice to produce

this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question

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these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible

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romantic read

knowing each passing day costs soldiers’ lives—but fearing too the consequences of their creation

and Runny Babbit plus Runny Babbit Returns

As Saika works harder in avoidance of her pain

Its moral force is a gut punch

Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder

with disastrous consequences for themselves

“My Good Friend