1787702944 
Paperback Oxygen / Sacha Naspini ; translated by Clarissa Botsford.
Publication year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Europa Editions
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781787702943 (pbk.) :
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Translated from the Italian.
What would you do if one day you found out the person who raised you is a monster? SHORTLISTED: DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION 2022 What would you do if one day you found out the person who raised you is a monster? Laura disappeared into thin air in 1999, at eight years old. She was found in a metal container, fourteen years later. Luca is having dinner with his father dinner when they are interrupted by a visit from the carabinieri, who take his father away. Luca can only watch the scene unfold, helpless. The charges brought against esteemed anthropologist Carlo Maria Balestri are extremely grave: multiple counts of abduction, torture, murder, and concealing his victims' bodies. What would you do if one day you found out that the person who raised you was a monster? Oxygen is a story of the aftermath of such evil. Balestri's capture does not end the hell he created. The professor's perverse experiment continues: he may no longer be able to imprison children in iron boxes,
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208 pages ; 21 cm
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