A provocative blend of Pynchon’s chaos and Palahniuk’s bite—an X-rated portrait of a world too numb to tell desire from violence
Pornorama is the story of a disturbing series of deaths in the world of porn set between Rome, Milan, and Turin, but it’s also the story of the investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Vittoria De Feo. And it also tells the story of how a couple in their twenties, Bet and Teo, ended up on the same trail in search of a scoop to relaunch their blog, and the story of a gossip journalist’s attempt to secure the scoop of their life.
Surrounding their complicated investigations is a surreal chorus of grotesque characters and dangerous, ridiculous figures: surgeons who get rich by selling sex toys modelled on the anatomy of dead porn stars, Luciferian lawyers who keep their interns on a leash, forensic analysts trying to make it big as YouTubers, disgraced former children’s TV actors,
Claudia Grande blends true crime, the most unsuspected innocence and the most heinous brutality, private neuroses and major social repressions.