Rimini

<p><b>Summer 1983, Rimini.</b><br><br><b>On the beaches and in the nightclubs of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect. </b><br><br>A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption.<br><br>A woman searching for her runaway teenage sister - and a new life after the end of her marriage. <br><br>A gossip columnist who follows the dramatic unfolding of an international literary prize. <br><br>A lonely musician, seeking solace amidst the clubs and discos that throng Rimini's beachfront strip. <br><br>A pair of penniless film directors who hatch a harebrained scheme to finance their dreams.<br><br>And the owner of a crumbling hotel, whose bad fortunes will drive him to desperate lengths.<br><br><b>An electrifying portrait of the simmering world of grifters, hedonists, dreamers and crooks who set the Italian Riviera of the 1980s alight, <i>Rimini </i>is a masterpiece of contemporary fiction, now translated into English for the first time. </b></p>