An anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel New York Times
A masterful historical account, an extraordinary and stimulating book. A portrait of Benito Mussolini all the more accurate and powerful as it is factual and rigorous. An audacious, fluid, dazzling production. A brilliant story Le Figaro
An indisputable literary achievement. Scurati carefully examines history, with an experienced prose rich in literary allusions. Like Yourcenar, Gore Vidal, Sebald, Echenoz or Fences. Italo Calvino would have loved it El Paìs
Resembles a political thriller surprisingly modern. A must read Die Zeit
The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece. Roberto Saviano
Panoptic and polyphonic, Scuratis book gives us the experiences of the fearful and the feared, the rhetoric of both the revolutionaries and the reactionaries a multitude of short fragments that collectively add up to an immense mosaic Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman
