SUMMER BOOKS Con le peggiori intenzioni

By Daniela Gross

This book was the successful literary debut of Alessandro Piperno, who won the Campiello Prize with it in 2005 and came to the national spotlight. “Con le peggiori intenzioni” – which means “with the worst intentions” – is the story of the Sonninos, a rich bourgeois Roman Jewish family. The life of three generations, from the post-war years to the Eighties, is depicted with all their successes, loves, and scandals. Praised and discussed, this book has the great merit of describing a contemporary Italian Jewish scenario.

Con le peggiori intenzioni
By Alessandro Piperno
Mondadori
157 pp.