Advocate - Softcover

Fois, Marcello

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225 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099453746 ISBN 13: 9780099453741

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

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The incident occurred in N-oro, Sardinia, about a hundred years ago. A prosperous farmer was shot dead in his olive grove, and his hired hand, a young man called Zenobi, was found guilty In absentia - he had gone to ground already after being accused of theft and was now a bandit with a price on his head. An open-and-shut case. Only the lawyer was willing to see whether the evidence for either charge stood up against the facts. Neither the courts nor the police wanted to reopen the case; the boy had effectively admitted his guilt by absconding. The lawyer's only recourse was to set up a trap of his own-

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"The Advocate is... quite simply a masterpiece. It nurtures a wordless violence and a pastoral simplicity, tragic as the Mediterranean sun beating down upon this stony ground" Frederic Vitoux, Nouvel Observateur; "A brilliant fresco of Sardinian life, with the added element of bloodshed that gives it the dynamism of a first-rate crime novel... Here is a writer who really merits attention" Francesco Mannoni, Messaggero Veneto

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'Fois could have on his hands a character as compelling as a cross between Inspector Morse and Hercule Poirot' The Times

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