Rain falls relentlessly on the Po valley in northern Italy, and the
river is swollen to its limits. A huge barge leaves its moorings,
steering an erratic course downstream and away into the foggy
night. When finally it runs aground hours later, the bargeman is
nowhere to be found. That same evening, Commissario Soneri is
summoned to investigate the apparent suicide of a man in nearby
Parma. He and the bargeman were brothers, and when the detective
discovers that they served together in the fascist militia fifty
years earlier, the incidents seem likely to be linked. Resentments
dating from the savage civil strife between Fascists and Partisans
in the closing years of the war still weigh heavily, and as the
flood waters begin to ebb, the river yields up its secrets: tales
of past brutality, bitter rivalry and revenge. Valerio Varesi is a
penetrating analyst of his country's dark and undigested history.
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