Other Voices of Italy – serie
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27 produkter
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, a Novel
Häftad, 2023
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248 kr
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An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world …
In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, a Novel
Inbunden, 2023
825 kr
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An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world …
My Language Is a Jealous Lover
Häftad, 2023
229 kr
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Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes …
Reversing the Gaze
What If the Other Were You?
Av Geneviève Makaping, Simone Brioni
Häftad, 2023
229 kr
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Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar GeneviÈve Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her …
Reversing the Gaze
What If the Other Were You?
Av Geneviève Makaping, Simone Brioni
Inbunden, 2023
821 kr
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Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar GeneviÈve Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her …
AntoloGaia
Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir
Häftad, 2023
218 kr
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In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. …
AntoloGaia
Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir
Inbunden, 2023
939 kr
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In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. …
Islam and Me
Narrating a Diaspora
Av Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Simone Brioni
Häftad, 2023
229 kr
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Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and …
Islam and Me
Narrating a Diaspora
Av Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Simone Brioni
Inbunden, 2023
703 kr
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Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia’s former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and …
Outcast
A Novel
Häftad, 2023
248 kr
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A young wife in a nineteenth-century Sicilian village, Marta is deeply in love with her husband Rocco and pregnant with his child. But when Rocco discovers a letter written to Marta by a would-be suitor, he falsely accuses her of infidelity and banishes her from their home. Soon the whole village …
Outcast
A Novel
Inbunden, 2023
1018 kr
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A young wife in a nineteenth-century Sicilian village, Marta is deeply in love with her husband Rocco and pregnant with his child. But when Rocco discovers a letter written to Marta by a would-be suitor, he falsely accuses her of infidelity and banishes her from their home. Soon the whole village …
Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
Häftad, 2024
248 kr
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Leyla is a headstrong Brooklyn-born art historian at a prestigious upstate New York college. When she meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael …
Caravaggio Syndrome
A Novel
Inbunden, 2024
954 kr
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Leyla is a headstrong Brooklyn-born art historian at a prestigious upstate New York college. When she meets feckless young computer technician Pablo at a party, she quickly becomes pregnant with his child. There’s only one problem: she can’t stand him. And one more problem: her student Michael …
Glory
The Gospel of Judas, a Novel
Häftad, 2024
248 kr
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Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives? In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe Berto’s final novel, Judas finally tells his …
Glory
The Gospel of Judas, a Novel
Inbunden, 2024
905 kr
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Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives? In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe Berto’s final novel, Judas finally tells his …
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Häftad, 2024
248 kr
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Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely …
Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
Inbunden, 2024
922 kr
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Three generations of women live together under the same roof. Though they are united by blood, each of the Cascadei women has a very different personality and way of expressing herself. Teenage daughter Lori scribbles impulsively in her diary, so eager to speed off on her moped that she rarely …
Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi
Av Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856–1935)
Häftad, 2025
229 kr
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Today, the Ludovisi district is one of Rome’s most luxurious neighborhoods, home to famous restaurants and some of the most expensive shops in the city. But it was once private property, part of an eighty-six-acre villa owned by the Boncompagni Ludovisis, an ancient noble family with close ties to …
Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility
The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi
Av Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi (1856–1935)
Inbunden, 2025
836 kr
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Today, the Ludovisi district is one of Rome’s most luxurious neighborhoods, home to famous restaurants and some of the most expensive shops in the city. But it was once private property, part of an eighty-six-acre villa owned by the Boncompagni Ludovisis, an ancient noble family with close ties to …
Farewell to Russia
Memories of When I Was Kola
Häftad, 2026
248 kr
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Growing up in 1990s Russia in a family marked by poverty, substance abuse, and neglect, Kola and his sister are eventually admitted into the orphanage system. Here, Kola comes face to face with a different but equally daunting challenge: navigating an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile world haunted …
Farewell to Russia
Memories of When I Was Kola
Inbunden, 2026
905 kr
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Growing up in 1990s Russia in a family marked by poverty, substance abuse, and neglect, Kola and his sister are eventually admitted into the orphanage system. Here, Kola comes face to face with a different but equally daunting challenge: navigating an unfamiliar and sometimes hostile world haunted …
Black Body
Häftad, 2025
229 kr
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The Black Body is the story of Anna Maria Gehnyei, also known as singer Karima 2G. Anna was born in Rome to Liberian parents, hailing from the Kpelle people -- among the first to leave their native lands for Europe. Despite being born Italian, the people of northern Rome treated her poorly: …
Black Body
Inbunden, 2025
718 kr
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The Black Body is the story of Anna Maria Gehnyei, also known as singer Karima 2G. Anna was born in Rome to Liberian parents, hailing from the Kpelle people -- among the first to leave their native lands for Europe. Despite being born Italian, the people of northern Rome treated her poorly: …
Her Name That Day
A Novel
Häftad, 2026
441 kr
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Giuliana Striano is forty years old and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of Italian emigrants with a daughter of her own, Renata, now five years old. Upon the death of her mother, Giuliana learns that she had been adopted and given a new identity with a different name and a …
Her Name That Day
A Novel
Inbunden, 2026
1547 kr
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Giuliana Striano is forty years old and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the daughter of Italian emigrants with a daughter of her own, Renata, now five years old. Upon the death of her mother, Giuliana learns that she had been adopted and given a new identity with a different name and a …
Timira
A Novel
Av Wu Ming Wu Ming 2, Antar Mohamed Marincola
Häftad, 2027
480 kr
Kommande
Timira: A Novel tells the story of Isabella Marincola, a Black Italian born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1925. Her father, Giuseppe, was an Italian official, her mother was his lover, Ashkiro Hassan, a Somali woman. Giuseppe recognized the paternity of Isabella, allowing her to be an Italian citizen. …
Timira
A Novel
Av Wu Ming Wu Ming 2, Antar Mohamed Marincola
Inbunden, 2027
2107 kr
Kommande
Timira: A Novel tells the story of Isabella Marincola, a Black Italian born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1925. Her father, Giuseppe, was an Italian official, her mother was his lover, Ashkiro Hassan, a Somali woman. Giuseppe recognized the paternity of Isabella, allowing her to be an Italian citizen. …
