Taormina, 9798896230403
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Sicilian holiday turns noir: suspicion, secrets, and a failing marriage.
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    136 pages

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    28 July 2026

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Summary

Unhappy couple Melvil and Luisa are on holiday in Sicily in a last-ditch effort to save their broken marriage, but one wrong turn off the highway leaves them stranded in a thunderstorm in the middle of nowhere. The road is muddy, it’s late, they hit something indeterminate in the dark.

The next day, the local newspaper reports that a child from a refugee camp was hit by a car and fatally injured. Melvil and Luisa hasten to find a garage in Taormina to repair their rental, but the repa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9798896230403
Author:Yves Ravey, Alyson Waters
Publisher:New York Review Books
Imprint:New York Review Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:136
Release Date:28 July 2026
Weight:369g
Dimensions:216mm x 146mm
About The Author

Yves Ravey

Yves Ravey (b. 1953) has published some twenty spell-binding novels since 1989, for the most part with the prestigious Les ditions de Minuit. His novel Le drap won the Prix Marcel-Ayme in 2004. He lives in Besan on, France.

Alyson Waters is an award-winning translator of some two dozen works of literary fiction and children’s literature. For NYRB she has translated works by Emmanuel Bove, Jean Giono, and Jean-Patrick Manchette. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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