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  • Of Jewish Race

    by Renzo Modiano ...
    Translated by Mirna Cicioni, Susan Walker ...
    When the fascist government collapses in Italy, Renzo Modiano is almost seven years old. The war is over, his mother tells him. At last, thinks Renzo, they will get their radio back. On 10 September 1943 the dining table is crowded as ever, but the family eat in silence. When the meal is finished Renzo’s father speaks: “Children, we have to leave the flat now. We won’t be able to stay together. We ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Born Survivors

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    by Wendy Holden ...
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  • The Last Son's Secret

    A huge international bestseller, this heartbreaking tale of a tiny Italian village during two World Wars will stay with you forever.Among the olive groves and vineyards of southern Italy, a boy and a girl are born, moments apart. Far away in the trenches of World War I, their fathers have just died. Now all the men in Vitantonio’s family have been wiped out – all twenty-one. All except him.Growing ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of the Past

    Book Six

    by Marco Vichi ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
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  • Family Lexicon

    Translated by Jenny McPhee ...
    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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  • The Tin Ring

    Love and Survival in the Holocaust

    Review Zdenka Fantlová and her story made a lasting impression. She survived six concentration camps, endured horrors the like of which most of us can't begin to comprehend, yet never lost the will to live or her optimism for a better future. During her time in the camps she kept a little tin ring, made for her by her boyfriend. She risked her life to keep this humble object that meant so much to ... Read more

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  • Tonight Is Already Tomorrow

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    by Lia Levi ...
    A prize-winning novel inspired by true WWII events. "An intense, moving book that tells the story of stories: what happens when Fascism befalls a country." — Esquire (Italy)1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to deal with the influx of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. Good intentions abound, but no government is willing to accept the refugees. At the same time, Fascist Italy is ... Read more

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  • The Burning of the World

    A Memoir of 1914

    A Hungarian artist’s haunting WWI memoir of the Eastern Front, executed with a painter’s eye for color, detail, and heartbreaking symbolism“[A] compact self-portrait against a background of carnage and disillusionment.” —The New York TimesThe budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found ... Read more

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  • Vengeance of Rome

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    Byzantium Endures, the first volume of Michael Moorcock’s legendary Pyat Quartet, appeared in 1981. The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the age’s worst nightmare.Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish antisemite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, ... Read more

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  • Luciano's Luck

    by Jack Higgins ...
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  • Don Camillo and His Flock

    Series Book 2 - Don Camillo Series
    Set against the post-war backdrop of a rural village in the Emilia-Romagna, this is the second in a new series of hilarious and incisive Don Camillo anthologies, which offer 215 stories translated into English for the very first time. As ever, the townsfolk, riven by their disparate allegiances to the hot-headed Catholic priest and his equally pugnacious adversary Peppone, the Communist Mayor, are ... Read more

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