Fictional account of real events: Offers a unique lens into the history of Italian cinema and the creative process
Queer love story: Explores relationships and identity within the context of art and illusion
Noirish thriller elements: Delivers suspenseful tension and moral ambiguity
Investigation into artifice and truth: Questions the nature of reality and perception in a cinematic world
Summarized by Shop
Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One, Nicholas, is a young artist, plausible, English, desperate. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the illusio