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An Italian master’s magnum opus about three generations of wildly eccentric women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation“[In Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female story—entirely women’s desires and ideas and feelings—could be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.” —Elena Ferrante, author of My Brilliant FriendElsa Morante is one of the titans ... Read more

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An Italian master’s magnum opus about three generations of wildly eccentric women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation“[In Lies and Sorcery] I discovered that an entirely female story—entirely women’s desires and ideas and feelings—could be compelling and, at the same time, have great literary value.” —Elena Ferrante, author of My Brilliant FriendElsa Morante is one of the titans
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Arturo's Island

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Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein's translation of Arturo's Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows ... Read more

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Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein's translation of Arturo's Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows
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