Books

Two memoirs, one story

Written for different readers, in different years, about the same eight years — and about what comes after them.

Honor Bound book cover

Honor Bound

My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox

With Andrew Gumbel · Simon & Schuster · September 2012 · English · ISBN 978-1-4516-9600-4

Accused of one of the most publicized murders of our time, targeted by the media and sentenced by the courts, Raffaele Sollecito spent four years in prison for a crime he had nothing to do with. Written after his 2011 appeal acquittal, Honor Bound is his first-person account of the arrest, the trials, the years in Terni prison, and why he refused to save himself by turning on Amanda Knox.

“He refused to testify against her to save his own skin, because he knew she would be lost forever.”

Un passo fuori dalla notte

Tutto quello che non avete mai immaginato di me

Longanesi · October 2015 · Italian · ISBN 978-88-304-4393-8

Written for Italian readers after the definitive acquittal of March 2015, Un passo fuori dalla notte is the account of a young man returning to life: the years lost, the family that held on, the degree finished under judgment, and the first steps out of the night — towards work, trust and a future built on his own terms.

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