Description
Book SynopsisThe Story of My Purity is the uproariously funny novel by Francesco Pacifico.
Thirty years old and already trapped in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his life to Jesus. Novels and music were filling his head with bullshit; his bourgeois life in a fancy neighborhood had taken him far away from spiritual purity and the Lord''s truth. So he''s moved to an unfinished housing development on the outskirts of Rome and thrown himself into his work at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing books that highlight the decadence and degradation of modern society: among them, a book claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish.
Witty, irreverent and timely, The Story of My Purity is an unmissable new novel from a brand new voice in European fiction.
Praise for The Story of My Purity:
''And so Pacifico''s book falls deliciously into our laps. One of the most talented writers of his generation
Trade Review
A rich and surprising, bright and liberal novel, dense with stories and even courageous, because of the topics it deals with and the profound lightness with which it deals with them * Rolling Stone *
Pacifico has an uber-literary horizon which is as classical as it is experimental * Vogue Italia *
The Story of My Purity manages to be both absurd and sincere; it is impossible to resist Piero Rosini's precise narration of his struggle to be a saint as he endures so many earthly temptations. A joy to read' -- Dana Spiotta
