{"product_id":"matter-doesnt-lie","title":"Matter Doesn't Lie","description":"\u003cp\u003eMariano Scrofani, a painter, seventy years old, has always known that paintings don't rise from the dead. Then, at an auction in Milan, a canvas of his that had been missing for decades reappears, perfect down to the last grain of sand. A forgery is impossible, because matter cannot be copied. But that painting hides, beneath the paint, the secret signature he has never revealed to anyone. To anyone but one person. One X-ray is enough to open the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn those same days, a single painting vanishes from a villa in the hills, The Blood of Fenestrelle, and an old history book annotated in pencil is left behind in the grass: \"And the names?\" So begins a chase across half of Europe and a hundred and sixty years: a thief who mends things instead of breaking them, a fortress in the Alps where in 1861 the boys of the South were taken, and a name sewn inside a canvas by two hands that had loved each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt will be Sicily that gives everything back: a surname kept silent for thirty-five years, a torn-out page from a register, and an exhibition where hundreds of people step up to a white wall to write the names of their dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA thriller about the authenticity of paintings, of names and of affections. A novel about memory, about the courage to sign, and about the right of every name not to be erased twice: by death and by silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Matter doesn't lie. At most, it waits for someone to hold it up to the light.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first novel by Mario Raniolo, painter and author of «The Colour of Matter».\u003cbr\u003e164 pages · 17.8 × 25.4 cm · paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished by MArt Srl, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MrArt Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55345563173205,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/0891\/3237\/files\/01copertinafronte_f225e17a-0a4e-4da4-a0ee-dbf719468503.jpg?v=1792078773","url":"https:\/\/mrartstudio.com\/products\/matter-doesnt-lie","provider":"MrArt Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}