Canone Inverso

First UK edition. Sm. 8vo., 202 pp. Black cloth lettered in silver to spine.

Translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee. Originally published by Mondadori, Milano, in 1996.

Author's second novel to be published in English. Age-old tale of the doppelgänger re-imagined: two boys in an isolated Austrian music school in the 1930s bond over the beauty of a strangely carved violin. A 'cult' novel, filmed in 1999 by director Ricky Tognazzi with Hans Matheson and Mélanie Thierry in the starring roles, and with an award-winning score by Ennio Morricone.

"His second novel, Canone Inverso, displays many of the same qualities [of The Lüneburg Variation]: an intricately wrought plot, with stories-within-stories and unexpected inversions and reversals, narrated with a crystalline clarity that makes the novel, for all its complexity, not only easy to follow but hard to put down." –Merle Rubin, The Wall Street Journal