Invernale - Brian Shannon

Invernale - Brian Shannon

Brian Shannon

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Published 29 October 2026

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  • Pages · 144 pages
  • Publication Date · 29/10/2026
  • Genre · Fiction: special features
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Turin, the late 1970s. Under the hundred-year-old steel roof of the market, Gino practices the art of butchery with precision and skill. He is a master of his craft, moving in time with the frantic dance of the stalls, until a momentary lapse turns a blade towards his thumb. With this slight, physical slip, a different kind of severance begins.��As a mysterious exhaustion takes root, Gino is forced from the noise of the stalls to the clinical silence of a Parisian oncology institute. Invernale is a stark, raw meditation on the fragile boundary between the body that works and the body that fails. �Dario Voltolini's minimalist masterpiece is an act of witness. A tribute that meticulously captures a father, his discipline and generosity, his love of football and the pain of a son.

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