The Story of My Purity
Francesco Pacifico
  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141399508
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00

The Story of My Purity

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Straight out of Rome, one of the funniest and boldest new voices in European literary fiction

Thirty years old and trapped in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini decides to dedicate his life to Jesus. Moving to an unfinished housing development in Rome he throws himself into his work at an ultraconservative Catholic publishing house, editing works which attack modern life's decadence: including a book claiming that Pope John Paul II was secretly Jewish.

Yet still Piero is suffocating. He worries that The Jewish Pope might be taking things too far. He can't get his beautiful sister-in-law out of his head. Can his purity really survive temptation?
  • Published: 26 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141399508
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for The Story of My Purity

A rich and surprising, bright and liberal novel, dense with stories and even courageous, because of the topics it deals with and the profound lightness with which it deals with them

Rolling Stone

Pacifico has an uber-literary horizon which is as classical as it is experimental

Vogue Italia

The Story of My Purity manages to be both absurd and sincere; it is impossible to resist Piero Rosini's precise narration of his struggle to be a saint as he endures so many earthly temptations. A joy to read'

Dana Spiotta