The novel *Le cento torri* tells a story of secrets, dark mysteries, horrors, guilty pleasures, disappointments, order and chaos, love and hate, set in a historic boarding school where the ambiguous nature of the characters reigns supreme. A duality pervades this place – rational and irrational – the seduction of evil, yet at the same time a staunch resistance to it.
The minds of the two protagonists, Inspector Tancredi Egidio and the student Julia, work together to pursue a single goal from two contrasting perspectives: to uncover the truth behind situations that subvert the rules of space and time.
The relationship between the two could be described as the living embodiment of an irreconcilable antithesis: black and white. But who is the black and who is the white? It is up to the reader to decide.
The inspector takes a rational and uncompromising approach to reality. For him, sight is a purely physical phenomenon. He has realised that this case looks set to be completely different from the others and that, therefore, it warrants much closer scrutiny. He soon discovers, however, that there are various ways to kill… for example, by condemning someone to a life of suffering… The young woman, on the other hand, reveals a formidable capacity for abstract thought. For her, sight is primarily a mental phenomenon, a sort of sixth sense that often leads her to view reality from a different perspective.
And so...