PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Francesco Pacifico has written for a number of Italian publications, including Rolling Stone and GQ, and has translated into Italian the works of Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dave Eggers, Will Eisner, and more. He lives in Rome. Stephen Twilley is associate editor at the online review Public Books and assistant editor at New York Review Books Classics. He is also the translator of Marina Mander's novel The First True Lie (2013).
The Story of My Purity manages to be both absurd and sincere; it is impossible to resist Piero Rosini's precise narration of his struggle to be a saint as he endures so many earthly temptations. A joy to read' -- Dana Spiotta Pacifico has an uber-literary horizon which is as classical as it is experimental * Vogue Italia * A rich and surprising, bright and liberal novel, dense with stories and even courageous, because of the topics it deals with and the profound lightness with which it deals with them * Rolling Stone *
