‘In uncovering her father’s story, the author has discovered her own; and her father’s story coincides with a dark and partially disremembered chapter in Italy’s history … to find one’s father is to find a history, a remembered city resurfaces’ Rolling Stone 

‘Sunken City is a vital book. And it is not just the life story of L.B. Nor is it simply the story of a nation during those tragic years. Because here we embark on a descent into an inferno … in which the true protagonist is the writer herself, the “unsatisfactory daughter”, a Dante with no Virgil to guide him, a Marcel who discovers the meaning of time and of life in a new and unexpected truth’ Giovanni Pacchiano, Robinson di Repubblica

‘This is the perfect book for those who want to understand the fog of those extraordinary years, and what happened when it lifted and things became visible again and clear to see; it is the perfect book for those who want to understand the clash between a generation that grew up surrounded by that fog and a generation that grew up without fog, needing and wanting to confront things as they are and not as we dreamed they might be; it is the perfect book for those who want to understand what it means, for millennials, to be their fathers’ children. … Many reviews of this very sophisticated, intense, historical and intimate book claim that it narrates “the loss of a father”. I would say otherwise … This is a book about paternity as a cleaving in two, and it is an unblinking account of what is to be gained by learning who our fathers really are – we free them from the yoke of our expectations and, in doing so, extinguish any form of debt or servitude’ Simonetta Sciandivasci, Il Foglio