Region: Italy (119 Listed volumes)
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Elena Ferrante
The Beach at Night
The Beach at Night is a short, moving, and mysterious tale for future and present readers of Ferrante’s beloved novels. -
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Street Kids
The Street Kids is arguably the most important novel by Italy’s preeminent 20th century author, film director and political thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini. First published in 1955, it caused such public outrage that Pasolini was charged with obscenity. Although he was acquitted at trial, the... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “the Chinaman”, starts to investigate. -
Alessandro Baricco
The Young Bride
The Young Bride is a scintillating and sensual novel about a young woman’s ingress into a fantastically strange family. -
Francesca Melandri
Eva Sleeps
A bestselling novel in Italy, soon to be a motion picture directed by Edoardo Winspeare, and Elle’s magazine’s book of the year. Eva Sleeps is a sweeping story about family, forgiveness, conflict, and the search for truth. A literary page-turner that will delight fans of Elena Ferrante. -
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Amara Lakhous
The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea
A fun and farcical novel, this new “whodunit” about life in multicultural Italy is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today’s changing, polyglot societies. Once again, the protagonist of this new novel is the crime beat journalist, Enzo Laganà. He and his Finnish fiancée,... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. They’ve made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bottom of Your Heart. Inferno for Commissario Ricciardi
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 his office window. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid,...
