Cousins - Aurora Venturini Gadda's sublimely different detective story

Gadda's sublimely different detective story presents a scathing picture of fascist Italy while tracking the elusiveness of the truth

powerful and absorbing

nine years after the death of its author

Ranging from the farcically comic to the darkly complex

St Petersburg

Cousins - Aurora Venturini Gadda's sublimely different detective storyCousins is the jewel in Venturini's oeuvre mischievous and stylish, vital and mysterious and completely original. It is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina. Neighbourhood mythologies, family, female sexuality, vengeance, and social mobility through art are explored and scrutinised in the voice of an unforgettable protagonist, Yuna, who stares wildly at the world in which she is compelled to live; a