The Wired Collection · A novel
Chiaroscuro
Lorenzo Moretti trusts numbers over people — until the numbers start lying. A pattern in the loan approvals leads a Roman bank director into the city's shadow economy: the domestic workers, immigrants and invisible communities who see everything, hear everything, and appear in no ledger. A novel about corruption, courage, and who gets to stand in the light.
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One purchase. Three ways to read.
Reflowable EPUB
For most e-readers and reading apps. Change the font, size, spacing and colours; navigate chapter by chapter. Validated with Ace by DAISY, conforming to EPUB Accessibility 1.1 at WCAG 2.1 AA.
Screen Reader Edition (tagged PDF)
Built to PDF/UA and checked with PAC: real headings, logical reading order, language metadata, bookmarks, and scene breaks assistive technology can announce. Jump straight to any chapter.
Low-Stimulation Large-Print Edition
17.5-point text, generous spacing, black on white, minimal visual noise, every chapter on a fresh page. Prints cleanly in black and white. The full novel — nothing simplified.
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About
Light, shadow, and who is allowed to be seen
Chiaroscuro — in Italian art, the technique of giving a painting depth through light and shadow — is a novel about the people society keeps in the dark: the workers whose labour holds a city together and whose names appear nowhere. Drawing on years of observing how financial systems can uplift or oppress, it follows an unlikely alliance across Rome's divides, from marble banking halls to the informal networks that, in the author's words, "see everything, hear everything."
Part of The Wired Collection: Rondanini Publishing's books for differently wired readers, built accessible from the start and tested — not just exported. See the whole collection.