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Original title Come Dio comanda Country Italy Genre Fiction narrative Originally published 6 October 2006 Page count 495 Adaptations As God Commands (2008) | 3.9/5 Goodreads Translator Jonathan Hunt Language Italian Media type Print ISBN 8804502797 Awards Strega Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As God Commands (Italian: Come Dio comanda), also known as The Crossroads, is a novel by Niccolò Ammaniti.
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It has won the 2007 Strega Prize.
In 2008, director Gabriele Salvatores adapted the novel into a film of the same name.
Plot
It tells the misadventure of Cristiano Zena, 13 year-old, and his father Rino in an Italian suburban area.
Reception
The Guardian described the novel as "overexplicit" and flipping "over into the truly grotesque". The New Yorker outlined the story of the novel as "grim but redemptive". The Los Angeles Times praised the novel "as gritty as it is suspenseful".
As God Commands won the 2007 Strega Prize with 144/356 votes.
References
As God Commands (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA