RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... extraordinary ... M: Son of the century was something of a triumph when it appeared in Italy in 2018, selling in the hundreds of thousands, winning the leading literary prize, the Premio Strega, and finding itself worthy even of a tetchy polemic by an eminent historian in the pages of Corriere della sera. As Antonio Scurati ploughs on in the coming years through volumes three and four, we can only hope that Spain in 1981 rather than the Aventine Secession of 1924 will be the model come the next storming of the capitol.
