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THE LOST READER - STASSI FABIO

A new, charming literary character, an unemployed person of today who alleviates the spiritual or physical ailments of people by suggesting the appropriate books. And in this way, novels, short stories, and poetry cease to be mere ink on paper and transform into therapies, medicines, and even research tools that illuminate dark crimes.
Vince Corso, a lookalike of Gérard Depardieu, is an unemployed professor, the product of his mother's fleeting relationship with an unknown traveler. The only memento he has from his father is three books left behind in a hotel room: a legacy that marked his life. To survive, he resorts to bibliotherapy as a profession. However, when he discovers that his neighbor, an avid reader, has disappeared, Vince begins to study the woman's life through the books she read, convinced that with her disappearance, she is writing a story that only he can decode.
An exciting novel that explores the boundaries of the fateful relationship between literature and reality. (From the back cover presentation of the book)

"Vince strengthens his (and the readers') faith in literature as an inevitable tool of knowledge" (Ernesto Ferrero - La Stampa)
"The grandeur of Rome and the literary world meet the productive creativity of Fabio Stassi" (Il Foglio)
"A structurally and stylistically perfect book that stimulates the reader's intelligence" (Corriere di Bologna)
"The author manages to flawlessly marry noir with 'high' literature, suspense with irony, gifting us the figure of an accidental makeshift detective that will remain deeply etched in the reader's mind" (Committee for the Scerbanenco Prize 2016)