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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The ...

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A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gi...

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In this little-known classic of Italian literature, young Arturo grows up in near-isolation on the island of Procida in the Bay of Naples. His mother died in childbirth and his wayward father, who left him as a child in the care of a servant on th...

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A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth...

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Pietro è un ragazzino di città, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di periferia, e farsi carico degli altri è il suo talento. Il padre è un chimico, un uomo ombroso e affascinante, che torna a casa ogni sera dal lavoro...

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A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to th...

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'Subtle, skillful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of political evil. It's the most impress...

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"Le voci della sera" è un breve romanzo del 1961, scritto durante il soggiorno londinese della Ginzburg e alla vigilia del ritorno in Italia. Con uno stile spoglio, fedele al rigore delle notazioni oggettive, la scrittrice esprime in que...

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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when ...

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER LONGLISTED AND WINNER OF THE STREGA PRIZE THE HOUSE ON VIA GEMITO A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK What is most thrilling about Trust is its overwhelming sense of unease... the selves we make for ourse...

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The author is giving voices to the different aspects of family tragedy

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The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective...

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"Lessico famigliare" è il libro di Natalia Ginzburg che ha avuto maggiori e più duraturi riflessi nella critica e nei lettori. La chiave di questo romanzo è delineata già nel titolo. Famigliare, perché racconta la storia di una famiglia ...

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Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates...

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Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracin...

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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William ...

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The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. 'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about ...

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For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere "Psychogeography at its most perceptive."Financial Times In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two ordinary young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Lu...

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Daunt Books' reissue of the work of Natalia Ginzburg continues. Jewish scientist Guiseppe Levi has a testy but loving and dependent relationship with his wife, and the family home they establish with their five children is an intellectual hotbed w...

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This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica tu...

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På julafton varje år sedan 1975 bänkar sig svenska folket för att titta på Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton. En animerad film av Per Åhlin som bygger på en saga av Tage Danielsson. Denna bok berättar sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonsson. Bilderna är från den...

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The extraordinary letters of Italo Calvino, one of the great writers of the twentieth century, translated into English for the first time by Martin McLaughlin, with an introduction by Michael Wood. Italo Calvino, novelist, literary critic and edit...

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Set in Sicily, The Terracotta Dog is the second novel in the humorous Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. *Adapted for BBC4's Inspector Montalbano series* After a cloak and dagger exchange with an ageing Mafioso, Inspector Montal...

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Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by ...

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NOW A MAJOR FILM 'With air in its lungs and love in its heart' Guardian ***** An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breath-taking Italian Alps, about two boys who meet in the same village every summer, and the men t...

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Emilio Zucchi (f. 1963) är en italiensk poet, kritiker och journalist. "Ondskan in i märgen" (Le midolla del male) blev en stor kritikerframgång när den kom på italienska 2010. Här skildras i 33 dikter hur några motståndskämpar i 1940-ta...

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'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Cl...

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This selection of Gramsci's writings includes his most important political, cultural and historical work. It focuses on key concepts - such as hegemony, passive revolution, civil society, common sense - and important texts on Americanism and ...

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