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“In November, Olivia Laing will publish The Silver Book, a novel billed as both ‘a queer love story and a noirish thriller’ set in 1970s Italy. In it, a young English artist meets the (real) production designer Danilo Donati, before joining him as his assistant at the film studio where reality is recast and reconstructed. These are troubled times—the ‘Years of Lead,’ during which hundreds died in terror attacks—and very soon the violence will be knocking at their door.” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
