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A Private Affair has the geometric tension of a romance of mad lovers and chivalric pursuits like
Orlando Furioso, and at the same time it presents the Resistance exactly as it was, inside and out, as truly as it has ever been written . . . with all the moral values and emotions (the more powerful, the more implicit) and fury." –Italo Calvino
"Superb and superbly exciting." –Paul Bailey
"No other modern Italian author has managed to produce such tellingly unstable fiction, while sustaining such a powerful narrative drive." –Peter Hainsworth,
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