BOOK SPOTLIGHT: There’s a Young Man Dressed in Blue by Fabio Amabili

As a reviewer for iRead Book Tours, I get an early look at forthcoming books. Here's my latest review of an experimental Italian novel, a legal/eco-thriller.

Publisher’s Synopsis: Present-day Milan. A brilliant young lawyer at a top international firm is handling the deal of his career: a high-stakes Italian-French acquisition in the offshore gas sector.

On the central Adriatic coast, a solitary man begins to uncover strange, unexplained events that no one wants to acknowledge.

Two lives, two worlds, one devastating collision.

Part legal thriller, part speculative mystery, There’s a Young Man Dressed in Blue blurs the line between rational order and the unknowable, delivering a twist that forces the reader to start over from page one.

My review: Translated from the Italian, this novel follows two separate tracks: First, an ambitious, workaholic young lawyer in a prominent Milan firm is assigned an important case , but in his attempt to perform due diligence he is given only heavily redacted documents and stonewalled when he seeks critical information. Second, strange events are occurring on Italy’s Adriatic coast: whales are dying and washing ashore, fishermen report mysterious glowing orbs racing across the sea, unexplained sickness among their crews, and haywire instruments and controls. A young man named Luca, a native of the town at the epicenter of the strange disturbances, is attempting to solve the mystery.

These two plot strands come together midway through the novel, and a fascinating premise for a legal/eco-thriller takes shape. As an Italophile, I enjoyed the Italian settings and found the translation smooth. My favorite parts of the book concerned the environmental mystery. I would have preferred a more straightforward narrative style and a clear resolution, but fans of experimental fiction may find this literary puzzle intriguing.

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