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A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, framed by the harrowing 1975 Circeo massacreEdoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner of Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy.Three well-off young men-former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno-brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event,...

Winner of Italy's most prestigious literary award, Premio Strega'To be born male is an incurable disease'In 1975, three young men, former students of the prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno, entrance two teenage girls to the seaside resort of Circeo. Neo-fascist scions of wealthy Roman families, the men rape and brutally torture the girls to the point of murdering one. The event, which comes to be known as the Circeo mass...

‘To be born male is an incurable disease’The winner of Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega, The Catholic School is one of the most arresting and haunting works of European literature to have appeared in the twenty-first century.In 1975, three well-off young men – former pupils at Rome’s prestigious Catholic boys’ school San Leone Magno – brutally tortured and raped two young women, killing one of them. The crime, which c...