Some novels are entertaining, others thrilling or even shocking. But Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Camere Separate, or Separate Rooms, has a haunting tone of its own. Its austere-sounding title hides a beguiling and deliberately non-linear narrative that is confronting and revelatory. The novel’s protagonist, Leo, is an itinerant writer in his early thirties who is frozen by grief following the death of his younger partner, Thomas.hellip;

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