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“angus davidson”

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  • All Our Yesterdays

    by Natalia Ginzburg ...
    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    From one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief. In the foreground ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Contempt

    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex—are evident in this story of a failing marriage. Contempt (which was to inspire Jean ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Boredom

    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    by Alberto Moravia ...
    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Children's Train

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    by Jana Zinser ...
    This compelling Holocaust action adventure story tells of bravery, sacrifice, and the survival of the human spirit against Hitler and the horrors of war."Gripping and impossible to put down. I cried several times throughout. Perfect ending, emotional but complete." - Goodreads reviewIt begins in November 1938 on The Night of the Broken Glass, when Jewish people of Germany are terrified as Hitler's ... Read more

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  • The End of the Ocean

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    by Maja Lunde ...
    Translated by Diane Oatley ...
    From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean ... Read more

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  • Disoriental

    by Négar Djavadi ...
    Translated by Tina Kover ...
    National Book Award Finalist: "A multigenerational epic of the Sadr family's life in Iran and their eventual exile . . . Full of surprises" ( The Globe and Mail).Winner of the 2019 Albertine Prize and Lambda Literary AwardKimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself, as ... Read more

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  • The Red Coat

    A Novel of Boston

    by Dolley Carlson ...
    Think Downton Abbey, set in the heart of BostonIrish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat that the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's ... Read more

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  • Jean Harley Was Here

    A Novel

    by Heather Taylor Johnson ...
    Finalist for the Readings Prize for New Australian FictionFor readers of Everything I Never Told You and When I’m Gone, a profoundly moving, heartwarming debut about family, relationships, and what we leave behind.Jean Harley-wife, mother, lover, dancer-is a shining light in the lives of those who know and love her, full of boundless energy, compassion, and joy. When she's hit by a truck while ... Read more

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  • The Department of Missing Persons

    A Novel

    by Ruth Zylberman ...
    Translated by Grace McQuillan ...
    A startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life.Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery ... Read more

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  • An Address in Amsterdam

    A Novel

    by Mary Dingee Fillmore ...
    A Kirkus Indie Book of the MonthWinner, Sarton Women's Book Award for Historical FictionWhen the Germans invade her city, Rachel Klein is a teenager falling in love. Within a year, she's delivering illegal papers and confronting Nazi soldiers. In this “compelling and touching tale” (Laurel Corona), Rachel finds her courage and faces wrenching choices.Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger ... Read more

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  • The Manzoni Family

    by Natalia Ginzburg ...
    rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war.Set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, The Manzoni Family tells a rich story of passions, writing, rivalries, deaths, and war. It pivots on the figure of Alessandro Manzoni, celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of the masterpiece of nineteenth-century Italian literature, I promessi sposi (The Betrothed). But ... Read more

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