This is a literary thriller torn from grief and vengeance, a tale of an all-consuming erotic obsession and a mediation on fathers and the traces they leave on their children. Claudio Fratta is a garden designer and a naturally solitary man. He is obsessed with determination to exact vengeance on the loan shark who bankrupted his father and with the pursuit of an enigmatic, alluring woman who is one of his clients. Set in an Italian landscape in part unchanged, yet deeply marked by the twentieth century, The Natural Disorder of Things is peopled with an authentic cast of contemporary Italy, from wealthy dilettantes to ex-convicts.
