Voices : A Novel
Bok av Dacia Maraini
An open door, a pair of blue tennis shoes, the sharp smell of disinfectant in the rooma woman killed by twenty stab wounds. Another woman, a journalist in a private radio station, is conducting a survey on violence against women. And when she discovers that the victim lived in his own palace, she feels directly involved and starts a very personal investigation into the murder that cannot be separated from her investigation on violence.Why, in fact, are so many women raped and killed? Why, so often, do they open the door, voluntarily, to those who attack them? Why is their fear of speaking so important for those who have been raped? In the end she finds her answers, and they're unpredictable and shocking.