Previews (29 Listed volumes)
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Ahmet Altan
Love in the Days of the Rebellion
With striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how—over a hundred years later—the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today’s Turkey. -
Carlo Piano, Renzo Piano
Atlantis. A Journey in Search of Beauty
World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many explorers before them: to find Atlantis. -
Massimo Recalcati
The Night in Gethsemane
In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy’s highest regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony. -
Charles Yu
Interior Chinatown
Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. -
Marcello Musto
Travels with Marx: Destinations, Reflections and Encounters
Travels with Marx tells the stories of his travels, peregrinations, encounters, conversations, and reflections. Bringing readers closer to the man who was Karl Marx is also an invitation to revisit his philosophical ideas. -
Deborah Eisenberg
Your Duck Is My Duck
By turns dark and hilarious, at times solemn and mysterious, Your Duck Is My Duck cements Deborah Eisenberg’s reputation as one of America’s greatest living writers of fiction. -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women—told against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change. -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the bookish Elena. -
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The Passenger: Turkey
Poised between competing ideologies, secularism and piousness, a militaristic nationalism and exceptional openness to foreigners, Turkey defies easy labels and categories. -
AA.VV.
The Passenger: Brazil
Today the challenge of telling the story of this extraordinary country consists in finding its enduring vitality amid the apparent melancholy.