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  • Her Name That Day

    A Novel

    by Pietro Spirito ...
    Translated by Melinda Nelson, Charles Klopp ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    Giuliana Striano is forty years old and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of Italian emigrants with a daughter of her own, Renata, now five years old. Upon the death of her mother, Giuliana learns that she had been adopted and given a new identity with a different name and a different date and place of birth. So Giuliana determines to find out who she really is, what is hidden ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Conservatory of Santa Teresa

    by Romano Bilenchi, Klopp, Charles; Nelson, Melinda (transleted by) ...
    Series Book 143 - Studi e saggi
    This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Year of School and The Island

    by Giani Stuparich ...
    Translated by Charles Klopp, Melinda Nelson ...
    The two stories presented in this volume focus on post-adolescent men (and, in One Year of School, a charismatic young woman) who are struggling with the distressing aspects of an existence they are just beginning to confront. In One Year of School these issues, which include the recognition of the precarious nature of life and its ultimate finitude, are wrestled with collectively by an entire ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Natalia Ginzburg, Peg Boyers ...
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    A close-knit family resists the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy in this WW2 historical fiction classic that blends family memoir with fiction—one of the most famous European post-war novels of all time.“A glowing light of Italian literature.” —The New York Times“Life-changingly good.” —ElleAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, ... Read more

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  • Meeting in Positano

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    by Goliarda Sapienza ...
    Translated by Brian Robert Moore ...
    **BUSTLE BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICKNAMED A BOOKSHOP.ORG RECOMMENDED READING OF THE SEASONIn this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship that embodies the paradoxes of Italian society.**Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer Goliarda Sapienza’s recently rediscovered novel takes ... Read more

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  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Series Book 3 - Neapolitan Novels
    Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" ( The New York Times).In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Call Me by Your Name

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    by André Aciman ...
    **Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay**A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club PickAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time</strong... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Series series Neapolitan Novels
    In one volume, the New York Times–bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies.Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly. ... Read more

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  • Light Years

    by James Salter ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **A brilliant portrait of a marriage from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winner and author of A Sport and a Pastime, with an introduction by Richard Ford.“Light Years is a novel of almost holy radiance to me. It is great in every sense of the word: vast, and timeless, and enduring.”—Lauren Groff, bestselling author of Fates and Furies**“Remarkable. An unexpectedly moving ode to beautiful lives frayed by ... Read more

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  • Intrigue in Capri

    by Ashley Weaver ...
    Series series An Amory Ames Mystery
    A stylish, sun-drenched original short story featuring amateur sleuth Amory Ames and her husband Milo, from the Edgar Award-shortlisted Ashley Weaver.“Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo might just be the new Nick and Nora Charles.” —Deborah CrombieSurely mysteries and the Mediterranean must be incompatible. The setting was so idyllic, so tranquil and perfect, that it was hard to imagine ... Read more

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  • The Twenty Days of Turin

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    Translated by Ramon Glazov ...
    by Giorgio De Maria ...
    **An NPR Best Book of the YearVulture • “15 Must-Read Translated Books From the Past 5 Years”Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut.**In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s ... Read more

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  • The House on Via Gemito

    A Novel

    by Domenico Starnone ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Washington Post·Kirkus Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, ... Read more

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