TEMPORARY PERFECTIONS

Gianrico Carofiglio in conversation with Fabio Finotti.The best-selling crime novelist Gianrico Carofiglio will present his novel “Temporary Perfections”, the fourth novel in the popular Guido Guerrieri series. Guerrieri, a lawyer practicing in Bari (Puglia) becomes enthralled with a closed missing persons case regarding a young woman, Manuela Ferraro, who vanished while on a beach vacation six months prior.  As Guerrieri investigates and uncovers Ferrari’s mysterious disappearance, he comes across startling revelations through unlikely sources that link the young and affluent Ferrari with a menacing drug ring. With an impressive career, Carofiglio has not needed to look far for his ideas.  A former prosecutor in Bari, Carofiglio has been involved with trials and investigations involving corruption, organized crime, and human trafficking, becoming an expert of psychology and techniques applied to investigations. In 2007-2008 he was an advisor of the anti-Mafia committee in the Italian Parliament in Rome and was elected senator.As one of Italy’s most sought-after authors, Carofiglio has written and published the Guerrieri series, as well as other successful novels and essays.Fabio Finotti is Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies; Graduate Chair, Italian; Director, Center for Italian Studies at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.