Massimo Carlotto will join us for the book signing of his latest novel A esequie avvenute (Einaudi). The author will also stay with us to introduce the 9:00 PM screening of Inherent Vice, one of the most celebrated films by director Paul Thomas Anderson, who in these very days returns to theaters with One Battle After Another (showing at Giunti Odeon starting September 25).

The Book:

Loris Pozza is the classic criminal skilled in “tricks of the trade”: scams, fake invoices, money funneled into the underground Chinese bank. When his Moldovan lover is kidnapped, the task of delivering the ransom falls to Marco Buratti, unlicensed investigator, and his partners Max the Memory and Beniamino Rossini. But something goes wrong, and despite the payment of one million euros, the woman is not released. The Alligator thus begins an unauthorized investigation to ensure the victim gets justice, despite those who would rather hush everything up. Meanwhile, Rossini—who occasionally abandons his old bandit’s trade to save women in need—rescues a young Ukrainian exploited by her country’s mafia. This time, however, the reprisal is brutal. A showdown from which no one will emerge unscathed, and which will take the Alligator further than he has ever gone before.

For the Alligator’s return, Massimo Carlotto writes his most painful noir yet. He plays his most melancholic and surprising blues.

"We had chosen a life very different from others, from those of regular people. And when your heart is an outlaw’s, you can’t expect it to beat to another rhythm."

The Author:

Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua in 1956. Discovered by writer and critic Grazia Cherchi, he debuted in 1995 with the novel Il fuggiasco, published by Edizioni E/O and winner of the Premio del Giovedì 1996. For the same publisher he wrote Arrivederci amore, ciao (second place at the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France 2003, finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in its English version published by Europa Editions in 2006), La verità dell’Alligatore, Il mistero di Mangiabarche, Le irregolari, Nessuna cortesia all’uscita (Premio Dessì 1999 and special mention at Premio Scerbanenco 1999), Il corriere colombiano, Il maestro di nodi (Premio Scerbanenco 2003), Niente, più niente al mondo(Premio Girulà 2008), L’oscura immensità della morte, Nordest with Marco Videtta (Premio Selezione Bancarella 2006), La terra della mia anima (Premio Grinzane Noir 2007), Cristiani di Allah (2008), Perdas de Fogu with Mama Sabot (Premio Noir Ecologista Jean-Claude Izzo 2009), L’amore del bandito (2010), Alla fine di un giorno noioso(2011), Il mondo non mi deve nulla (2014), the tale La via del pepe, illustrated by Alessandro Sanna (2014), La banda degli amanti (2015), Per tutto l'oro del mondo (2016), and Blues per cuori fuorilegge e vecchie puttane (2017).
For Edizioni E/O he also curates the Sabot/age collection.
For Einaudi Stile Libero he has published Mi fido di te (with Francesco Abate), Respiro corto, Cocaina (with Gianrico Carofiglio and Giancarlo De Cataldo), and with Marco Videtta, the four novels of the Le Vendicatrici cycle (Ksenia, Eva, Sara, and Luz). In 2024, Trudy was released.
For Rizzoli he published Il Turista (2016) and E verrà un altro inverno (2021); for Feltrinelli Ballata per un traditore(2020) and Refrain (with Pasquale Ruju and David Ferracci, 2021); and for Mondadori Il Francese (2022).

His books have been translated into many languages, and he has won numerous awards in Italy and abroad. Massimo Carlotto is also a playwright, screenwriter, and contributor to newspapers, magazines, and musical projects.