Runaway Horses
by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini
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"Siena, one of Italy's most beautiful cities, visited by all discerning travellers to Tuscany, is feverishly preparing for the Palio, a horse race dating back to the Middle Ages held every summer in the centre of the town, famously described by Rick Steves as "The World's Most Insane Horse Race". Milanese lawyer Enzo Maggione and his wife Valeria are unwittingly caught up in the maelstrom of plots, counterplots and bribes surrounding the race. They are even witnesses to the violent death of show more Puddu, the Palio's most celebrated jockey, found dead the day before the race."-- show lessTags
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E' un libro interessante sul palio di Siena dove il giallo, l'intrigo e la suspence sembrano fare solo di contorno al popolare evento. Il libro di prende e ti incolla alle vicende di questa coppia che per errore si ritrova in una villa dove il mistero serpeggia tra gli ospiti. Finale un po' deludente con toni esistenziali.
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- Canonical title
- Runaway Horses
- Original title
- Il Palio delle contrade morte
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Enzo Maggioni; Valeria; Puddu; Guidobaldo; Ginevra; Ascanio (show all 8); Ranieri; Salimbeni
- Important places
- Siena, Tuscany, Italy
- Important events*
- Palio di Siena
- First words*
- Schon länger als eine halbe Stunde sieht jetzt der Anwalt Maggioni aus diesem Fenster, und immer noch zieht unter ihm unendlich langsam der Zug vorbei, der den traditionellen "Palio" von Siena eröffnet.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ginevra entfaltet das Halstuch, faltet es zu einem langen dünnen Streifen zusammen und schlingt die seidene Viper zärtlich um den Hals des Anwalts Maggioni, des willigen, zustimmend lächelnden Phantoms.
- Original language*
- Italienisch
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 853.914 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian fiction 1900- 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PQ4866 .F45 .P3 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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