A much-loved guest returns to GO: Gianrico Carofiglio, presenting his latest book Viaggio in Italia (Touring) in conversation with Francesca Santolini.

The Book:

In a country that has been extensively narrated, spectacularized, and at times trivialized, there is still room for surprise. At the edges of maps, in details and hidden corners, there exists a restless dimension that only a clear yet visionary gaze can bring into view. The visible cities of a great storyteller—from Bari to Venice, from Palermo to Turin—are woven into a narrative marked by a joyful sense of disorientation, moving in many directions without a fixed destination.

A cartographer of the invisible, Carofiglio guides us with the pace of a flâneur, inviting us to discover light within shadow, hidden beauty in details and small stories. He reminds us that it is detours and chance encounters that reveal unexpected and surprising horizons.

The Author:

Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian writer, former magistrate, and former politician. Appointed to the judiciary in 1986, he served as a pretore in Prato, a Public Prosecutor in Foggia, and later as a Deputy Prosecutor at the Anti-Mafia District Directorate in Bari. In 2008, he was elected to the Italian Senate for the Democratic Party.

His first novel, Testimone inconsapevole (Sellerio, 2002), inaugurated the Italian legal thriller and introduced the character of lawyer Guido Guerrieri. The novel received several debut awards, including the Premio del Giovedì “Marisa Rusconi,” Premio Rhegium Iulii, Premio Città di Cuneo, and Premio Città di Chiavari. Further novels featuring Guerrieri followed with Sellerio: Ad occhi chiusi (2003)—winner of the Premio Lido di Camaiore, Premio delle Biblioteche di Roma, and named “best international noir of the year” in Germany in 2007 by a jury of booksellers and journalists—and Ragionevoli dubbi (2006), which won the Premio Fregene and Premio Viadana in 2007 and the Premio Tropea in 2008.

Among his many books are Il passato è una terra straniera (Rizzoli, 2004), winner of the Premio Bancarella 2005 and adapted into a film produced by Fandango in 2008; the graphic novel Cacciatori nelle tenebre (with his brother Francesco, Rizzoli, 2007), winner of the Premio Martoglio; L’arte del dubbio (Sellerio, 2007); Né qui né altrove(Laterza, 2008); Il paradosso del poliziotto (Nottetempo, 2009); Le perfezioni provvisorie (Sellerio, 2010); Il silenzio dell’onda (Rizzoli, 2011); Il bordo vertiginoso delle cose (Rizzoli, 2013); and La casa nel bosco (written with Francesco Carofiglio, 2014).

More recent publications with Einaudi include Una mutevole verità (2014), La regola dell’equilibrio, Passeggeri notturni, L’estate fredda (2016), Alle tre del mattino (2017), La misura del tempo (2019), and Non esiste saggezza. Edizione definitiva (2020). Other works include Della gentilezza e del coraggio. Breviario di politica e altre cose(Feltrinelli, 2020), La disciplina di Penelope (Mondadori, 2021), La nuova manomissione delle parole (Feltrinelli, 2021), Rancore (Einaudi, 2022), L’ora del caffè. Manuale di conversazione per generazioni incompatibili (Einaudi, 2022), L’orizzonte della notte (Einaudi, 2024), and Elogio dell’ignoranza e dell’errore (Einaudi, 2024).