A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Guido Guerreri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from A
Involuntary Witness
✍ Scribed by Gianrico Carofiglio
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1282990950
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✦ Synopsis
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A black immigrant is accused of child murder in Italy; the court procedural is tainted with racism.
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