Il torto. Diciassette gradini verso l’inferno
by Piano, Carlo
Donato Bilancia, also known as Walterino, is one of the bloodiest killers Italy has ever seen.
The motivations behind his free-fall into darkness remain unexplained.
Responsible for seventeen murders in six months. Night owl of the Genoese underworld. Captured twenty-five years ago and sentenced to thirteen life sentences. Hopeless gambler but faithful to his word. Fine scholar as a boy, he then gets distracted. Burglar, he kills because he gets caught thrifting. He kills for revenge. Ultimately, he kills for no reason at all.
Restricted to solitary confinement for 11 years.
He leaves prison only once in two decades, to visit his parent’s tomb. From prison he gets his high-school diploma. He becomes passionate about theatre, he studies French, English and Spanish. Covid kills him in his cell, after refusing treatment.
Did he repent? Was he insane, or overcome with resentment?
Avoiding all kinds of morbid voyeurisms and preconceptions, investigating with tenacious commitment into the motivations and delusions of Bilancia’s ferocious mind, Carlo Piano retells the life of Walterino, the so-called ‘train
- Publishing house E/O
- Year of publication 2023
- Number of pages 272
- ISBN 9788833575995
- Foreign Rights Emanuela Anechoum, emanuelaanechoum@edizionieo.it
- Awards Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco 2023, Premio Dei Lettori Al Miglior Romanzo Noir
- Price 18.50
Piano, Carlo
Carlo Piano was born in Genoa in 1965. In 1998 he followed the Bilancia case as a correspondent for a national newspaper. He writes for La Repubblica, La Stampa and Il Secolo XIX. In cahoots with his father Renzo he wrote Atlantis for Feltrinelli.
E/O published his first novel, Il cantiere di Berto, about the tragedy and rebirth of the Genoa bridge.
- SHARE ON:
-
-
-
-
