Nino Ricci creëert verhalen die zich verdiepen in de complexe wisselwerking tussen de menselijke natuur en morele ambiguïteit. Zijn werken verkennen vaak de spanning tussen primaire instincten en het nastreven van het goede, weergegeven in rijke proza dat diepgaand psychologisch inzicht biedt. Ricci's kenmerkende stijl daagt lezers uit en blijft toch toegankelijk, wat sterke emotionele reacties en bedachtzame contemplatie oproept.
Set in the Valle del Sole, a tiny village nestled in Italian Appenines, this novel tells the story of young Vittorio Innocente and of his mother, Christina, whose affair with a mysterious blue-eyed stranger abruptly shatters the innocence of Vittorio's childhood.
Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to "In a Glass House" explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one's longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father's death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each other's lives, they are at first restrained. But gradually what is unspoken between them comes closer to the surface, setting in motion a course of events that will take Victor back to Valle del Sole in Italy, the place of his birth. It is there, where the story had its strange beginning twenty years earlier, that he confronts his past, its secrets and its revelations. Poignant, gripping, and written in luminous, highly charged prose, "Where She Has Gone "is an unforgettable novel - for its vivid portrayal of character and place, and for its extraordinarily moving encounter with the past.