The well-to-do Forte family is at its wit's end when Federica Forte becomes mute, and as she communicates her thoughts in letters, her family attempts to find out what past tragedy has caused her silence. A first novel....
Manfred, a surly mountaineer recently abandoned by his wife, rents the upstairs apartment in his home in the Dolomites to Marina, a woman from the city, and her difficult young son. Deeply suspicious by nature, especially of women, Manfred spies obse...