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Gianrico Carofiglio

    30 mai 1961

    Gianrico Carofiglio tisse des récits captivants qui explorent les complexités de la justice et de la moralité, s'appuyant sur son passé de juge anti-mafia. Son écriture se caractérise par un intellect vif et un style sophistiqué, rendant ses explorations de dilemmes éthiques à la fois engageantes et stimulantes. Il excelle dans la création de suspense et dans la représentation de personnages aux prises avec les aspects plus sombres de la nature humaine. Les lecteurs apprécient son œuvre pour ses aperçus percutants et sa profonde compréhension de la psyché humaine.

    Gianrico Carofiglio
    Temporary Perfections
    Involuntary Witness
    Reasonable Doubts
    Three O'Clock in the Morning
    A Walk in the Dark
    The Cold Summer
    • The Cold Summer

      • 349pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The summer of 1992 had been exceptionally cold in southern Italy. That summer ushered in a spate of killings by the Mafia of judges and police officers, most of them assassinated near Palermo. The Sicilian killings and ensuing gang wars also infected Bari triggering an investigation by local Carabinieri officer Pietro Fenoglio.

      The Cold Summer
      4,0
    • A Walk in the Dark

      • 218pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      Legal thriller written by an anti-mafia prosecutor. Set in Southern Italy. Turow with wry humour.

      A Walk in the Dark
      4,0
    • It is there, in a foreign city, under strained circumstances, that they will get to know each other and connect for the first time.A beautiful, gritty, and charming port city where French old-world charm meets modern bohemia, father and son stroll the streets sharing strained small talk.

      Three O'Clock in the Morning
      4,0
    • Reasonable Doubts

      • 249pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Third in the Guido Guerrieri series. The defender of lost causes in Bari,Italy falls in love with his client's wife.

      Reasonable Doubts
      4,0
    • Involuntary Witness

      • 274pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      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 Guerrieri, counsel for the defence, a Senegalese peddler is accused of the crime. Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts.

      Involuntary Witness
      3,9
    • Temporary Perfections

      • 284pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Fourth in the bestselling Guido Guerrieri series. The investigation of the disappearance of Manuela, the daughter of a rich couple living in Bari.

      Temporary Perfections
      3,9
    • A Fine Line

      • 280pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series set in southern Italy. Guerrieri takes on another case with dubious merits. This time he agrees to defend a judge suspected of corruption, an accusation that sadly looks likely to stick.

      A Fine Line
      3,8
    • The Measure of Time

      • 248pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series. The setting is Bari in Southern Italy. Against his own instincts, defence attorney Guerrieri takes on an appeal against what looks like an unassailable murder conviction. The alleged perpetrator is the son of a former lover. A taught legal thriller and a meditation about the ravages of time.

      The Measure of Time
      3,7
    • La nuova manomissione delle parole

      • 160pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

      Rosa Luxemburg affermava che chiamare le cose con il loro nome è un atto rivoluzionario. In un'epoca in cui la democrazia vacilla e la sfera pubblica è intrisa di social media, l'uso delle parole può trasformare drasticamente la realtà. Il linguaggio diventa uno strumento di manipolazione e mistificazione, rendendo essenziale che le parole tornino a riflettere il loro significato autentico. La manomissione, sebbene indichi danneggiamento, in diritto romano significava liberazione degli schiavi. Questo libro affronta tale ambivalenza, evidenziando le deformazioni del nostro linguaggio e la possibilità di recuperare il suo significato genuino, fondamentale per un discorso pubblico aperto e inclusivo. La prima edizione, pubblicata undici anni fa, rifletteva un'altra epoca, quella dell'ascesa di Berlusconi, preludio a nuove manomissioni. Il testo è stato aggiornato per includere le recenti distorsioni linguistiche causate dall'avanzata populista. Carofiglio esplora sei pilastri del lessico civile: vergogna, giustizia, ribellione, bellezza, scelta e popolo. Attraverso un viaggio nella letteratura, nell'etica e nella politica, da Aristotele a Bob Marley, il lettore scopre strumenti per restituire alle parole la loro potenza originaria. Salvare le parole dalla manomissione significa essere cittadini liberi, affrontando le ferite del linguaggio e tracciando possibili strade per la sua liberazione.

      La nuova manomissione delle parole
      5,0
    • Die Kraft der Worte

      • 112pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      In vier Gesprächen mit dem ehemaligen Richter, Senatsabgeordneten und Schriftsteller Gianrico Carofiglio geht es um die komplexe und oft flüchtige Beziehung zwischen politischem Handeln, unserer Sprache und dem Prinzip der Wahrheit. Wenn in einer Gesellschaft das Vertrauen zur Sprache verloren geht, befindet sie sich in einem schlechten Zustand: Denn auf den Bedeutungsverlust des Diskurses folgt meist die gefährliche Entmachtung der staatlichen Institutionen. Ein leidenschaftlicher und spannender Dialog. Ein Plädoyer für kritisches Denken, das dabei hilft, Manipulationen zu erkennen und zu vermeiden.

      Die Kraft der Worte
      5,0