Extraordinaria. .- El Pa s

La historia humana est plagada de individuos cuyos nombres perdurar n por siempre; hay otros tan ic nicos que se los conoce solo por su nombre de pila. Pero existe otra categor a, la de aquellos que ni siquiera pueden ser nombrados y para quienes basta con una letra: a ella pertenece Benito Mussolini.

Esta es la biograf a novelada de un hombre y, a trav s de l, tambi n la de una poca entera, la del surgimiento del fascismo. Pero M. El hijo del siglo es sobre todo una historia vibrante, hipn tica, con la profundidad de un ensayo y el ritmo narrativo de la mejor ficci n contempor nea, sobre c mo una sociedad decidi entregarse a los delirios de grandeza de un solo hombre.

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2019 STREGA AWARD

"Masterpiece. We were expecting it for decades." - Roberto Saviano

The most conclusive work on Mussolini's rise to power.

Twelve editions and more than 250,000 copies sold in Italy.

"Extraordinary." - El Pa s

The history of humanity is plagued by individuals whose names will be forever recognized; there are others so iconic that they are known only by their first names. But there is yet another category, that of those who cannot even be named and for whom a single letter suffices: Benito Mussolini belongs to that category.

This is the fictionalized biography of a man and, through him, also that of an entire era, that of the rise of fascism. But M. The Son of the Century is above all a vibrant, hypnotic story, with the depth of an essay and the narrative rhythm of the best contemporary fiction, about how a society who decided to surrender itself to one man's delusions of greatness.