A Very Italian Drive to Work

This is a laugh: an Italian drive to work, according to Vincenzo Cerami's by turns witty, delightful and vicious A Very Normal Man, translated into English for the first time in 2015 by Isobel Grave. Giovanni’s 850 was parked at an angle over the footpath outside UPIM, a big department store. He had to be in the office by half past eight. The Ministry was only a short distance from Rome’s central station and since Giovanni lived at…