After Hannibal - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140264396 ISBN 13: 9780140264395

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

Set amidst Umbria's golden landscape of desires and memories, a colourful cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. And at the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to predict and control events.

About this title

About the Author:

Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.

From the Inside Flap:

th, the Booker Prize-winning author of Sacred Hunger and the bestselling Morality Play, returns in top form with this worldly, bittersweet comedy of manners and morals set in one of Italy's most glorious--and historically treacherous--regions.

Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed.

Unsworth's contemporary invaders include the Greens, a retired American couple seeking serenity among the Umbrian hills, who are bilked out of their savings by the corrupt English "building expert" Stan Blemish; the Chapmans, a British property speculator and his wife, whose dispute with their neighbors over a wall escalates into a feud of nearly medieval proportions; Anders Ritter, a German haunted by the part his father played in a mass killing of Italian hostages in Rome d

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140264396
• ISBN 13: 9780140264395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256