by William Trevor · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788882463878
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«Morte d'estate» is the mystery novel by William Trevor, published by Guanda in paperback in 2001 (216 pages, in Italian).
After his wife dies in an accident, Thaddeus is left a widower with a young daughter and seeks a nanny. Living with his mother-in-law is difficult, and it worsens when a rejected candidate develops a romantic obsession with him that turns the summer into a threat, driving the story toward suspense and tragedy.
Italian translation by Laura Pignatti. The original novel, Death in Summer, appeared in 1998; this edition is from the Le Fenici tascabili collection.
For readers of literary fiction, mystery, and book clubs.
William Trevor Cox was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. One of the elder statesmen of the Irish literary world, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of short stories in the English language. Trevor won the Whitbread Prize three times and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, the last for his novel Love and Summer (2009), which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2011. His name was also mentioned in relation to the Nobel Prize in Literature.
