by Pete Dexter · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806168599
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«Train» is a crime novel by Pete Dexter, published by Einaudi in hardback (308 pages, in Italian).
In 1953, in Los Angeles, Train, a young black caddie who hides his talent for golf, meets Packard, a powerful and enigmatic man who believes he has the right to save or punish. Their lives cross with that of Norah, a white woman marked by violence, in a story about racism, guilt and redemption.
The translation is by Norman Gobetti. The book is number 1287 in the Einaudi Stile libero big collection. The work won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Deutscher Krimi Preis.
It is suitable for readers of crime fiction and literary fiction who appreciate the social and racial background of the United States in the 1950s.
Pete Dexter is an American novelist. He won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout.
