This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Translation copyright © 2018 by John Cullen
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Italy as L’indegno by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A, Milan, in 2016. Copyright © 2016 by Antonio Monda.
DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith for permission to reprint a lyric excerpt of “Because the Night” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith. Copyright © 1978 by Bruce Springsteen (Global Music Rights). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Monda, Antonio author. | Cullen, John, 1942– translator.
Title: Unworthy : a novel / Antonio Monda ; translated from the Italian by John Cullen.
Other titles: Indegno. English
Description: First American edition. | New York : Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017054295 (print) | LCCN 2017057472 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385542944 (hardcover) ISBN 9780385542951 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: Priests—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. | GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PQ4913.O537 (ebook) | LCC PQ4913.O537 I5313 2018 (print) | DDC 853/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017054295
Ebook ISBN 9780385542951
Cover design by Kathleen DiGrado
Cover photograph © Lara Wernet/Novarc Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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