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Starred Review on June 1, 2019 | Fiction
In 2016, Albinati (Coming Back: Diary of a Mission to Afghanistan) won the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award, for the novel La scuola cattolica. Thanks to Shugaar, we now have an English translation. The story centers on a grisly account of the 1975 Circeo Massacre, in which three men raped, tortured, and murdered two women at their family's Italian villa. The men graduated from Istituto San Leone Magno, the same elite Catholic s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More