Alessandro Piperno & L.H.Wiener

Alessandro Piperno lives and works in Rome, where he teaches French at the university. Met de slechtste bedoelingen (Con le peggiori intenzioni) is a remarkable debut novel that remained on the Italian bestseller lists for months. Piperno paints a ruthless portrait of the partly Jewish, partly Catholic Sonnino family, set against the backdrop of the second half of the twentieth century. A sharp, ironic and at times melancholic depiction of concealed antisemitism within Rome’s upper bourgeoisie circles.

“Con le peggiori intenzioni is captivating; it makes you keep reading, you cannot put it down.” — Corriere della Sera

“The book everyone is talking about at the moment.” — Donna Moderna

L.H. Wiener has written twelve books, mostly short story collections. He also wrote the successful, F. Bordewijk Prize-winning novel Nestor, as well as Verzamelde verhalen, Volumes 1 and 2. Recently, De verering van Quirina T. was published, in which Victor van Gigch, a high school teacher at the Laurens Coster Gymnasium in Haarlem for thirty years, despite desperate attempts to prove himself otherwise, becomes obsessed with Quirina T., a sixteen-year-old student who left the school but cannot seem to say goodbye.

“L.H. Wiener’s literary chronicle is brilliant.” — NRC Handelsblad