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  • When Things Happen

    A Novel

    by Angelo Cannavacciuolo ...
    Translated by Gregory Pell ...
    Series series Other Voices of Italy
    Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family. Michele’s own family origins, however, are murkier. When he is assigned to work with five-year-old foster child Martina, he grows increasingly engrossed by her case, as his own buried family history ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...
    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • From Scratch

    A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

    by Tembi Locke ...
    Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldaña!This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours.It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Shape of Water

    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    Series Book 1 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
    The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a part of town used by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Ferocity

    A Novel

    by Nicola Lagioia ...
    Translated by Anthony Shugaar ...
    This Strega Prize winner "ticks all the boxes of a thriller while also being a masterfully written, baroque, many-faceted depiction of modern Italy" ( The Spectator).Bari, southern Italy: On a stifling summer night, on the outskirts of town, a young woman named Clara, daughter of the region's most prominent family of real estate developers, stumbles naked, dazed, and bloodied down a major highway. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Twenty Days of Turin

    A Novel

    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

    Was $17.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • La Superba

    by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ...
    Translated by Michele Hutchison ...
    "An ode to the imagination."—NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed "La Superba."Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Italian Education

    The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

    by Tim Parks ...
    A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors ( The Washington Post).Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bottom of Your Heart

    Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    Series Book 7 - The Commissario Ricciardi Mysteries
    The seventh Commissario Ricciardi historical mystery is "an intricately layered whodunit set in Fascist Naples . . . A richly textured story" ( Kirkus Reviews).In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Agostino

    by Alberto Moravia ...
    Translated by Michael F. Moore ...
    Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. Though repelled by their squalor and brutality, and repeatedly humiliated for his weakness and ignorance when it comes to women and sex, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cold for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    Series Book 3 - The Bastards of Pizzofalcone Series
    Naples detectives face a coldblooded killer amid the chill of winter in the third book of the Italian author's acclaimed mystery thriller series.A heinous double murder in a squalid apartment on the wrong side of town pits the motley collection of cops known as the "bastards" of the Pizzofalcone precinct against their superiors, the press, and the local political hierarchy. Now Inspector Lojacono ... Read more

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  • The Crocodile

    by Maurizio de Giovanni ...
    The author of the Commissario Ricciardi series "manages to conjure up the terrifying darkness at the heart of a serial killer in this chilling procedural" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).The chaotic, shadowy city of Naples proves the perfect hunting ground for a killer dubbed "The Crocodile" by the press. Like a crocodile, when he devours his own children, he cries. And like a crocodile he is ... Read more

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