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My mother-in-law drinks / Diego De Silva ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.

by De Silva, Diego, 1964-

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Europa Editions, c2014.

Lawyers -- Italy -- Fiction.

Hostage negotiations -- Fiction.

9781609452322 (trade pbk.)

Mia suocera beve English English.

373 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published as: Mia suocera beve. c2010.

Translated from the Italian.

He makes you laugh, though you can never be quite sure why. He is both a kind of halfwit and a genius, flippant and profound, chaotic and yet possessed of a Zen-like calm. His conversation is labyrinthine but he is capable of moments of blinding lucidity. The thing is, you can't help but love him. He is Vincenzo Malinconico, an underemployed lawyer whose wife has sort of left him, whose teenage children worry him to death, and whose profession mostly consists in appearing as if he has one. In this book a Neapolitan mafia boss has been kidnapped by a mild-mannered computer engineer who holds the camorrista responsible for the accidental death of his son. The only hope of a happy ending rests with Vincenzio Malinconico: he hardly has a reputation for decisiveness, but now is called upon to play a decisive role in resolving the drama with, hopefully, no loss of life, his own included.

Italian fiction -- Translations into English.

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