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Time on My Hands

by Giorgio Vasta

When does a game stop being a game? And what would cause a young boy to commit an act of savage violence? The year is 1978, and a chilling drama is unfolding in Rome. Members of a leftist terrorist group known...


The Story of My Purity

by Francesco Pacifico & Stephen Twilley

An exuberant tale of a man caught between faith and freedom, from one of Italy’s most talented young novelists

Thirty years old, growing flabby in a sexless marriage, Piero Rosini has decided to dedicate his...


70% Acrylic 30% Wool

by Viola Di Grado

Winner - Campiello First Novel Award;

Finalist – The Strega Prize for Fiction.

 

Camelia is a young Italian woman who lives with her mother in Leeds, a city where it is always December and winter has been underway...


Fists

by Pietro Grossi & Howard Curtis

Told in a spare and powerful voice reminiscent of Hemingway and Salinger, the three stories in Pietro Grossi's Fists explore the rite of passage each of us faces in our youth and what it means to be a man in...


My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself...


How I Lost the War

by Filippo Bologna & Howard Curtis

The award-winning screenwriter Filippo Bologna’s first novel is a dark and witty environmental satire set in sun-drenched Tuscany. A small and idyllic Tuscan village is cast into disarray by the arrival of...


A Winter's Night

by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Set during the first half of the twentieth century, this is the story of the Brunis, a family of farmers from the Italian Padan Plain who have worked the land since time immemorial. And it is a story about the...


Persecution

by Alessandro PIPERNO & Ann Goldstein

In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Rome, the internationally revered pediatric oncologist Leo Pontecorvo and his family—wife Rachel and their two amiable children—have gathered for dinner. The scene...


About Time

by Simona Sparaco & Howard Curtis

Svevo Romano is every woman’s dream turned nightmare, living the life of excess in Rome. He may be handsome, rich and successful, but he is also a ruthless businessman, workaholic and playboy. At the back...


The Frost on His Shoulders

by Lorenzo Mediano & Lisa Dillman

In the 1930s, in an isolated valley of the Pyrenees Mountains, an aging teacher reconstructs a bloody and tragic event that seemed destined to remain forever hidden behind a wall of silence. He alone can penetrate...


Divorce Islamic Style

by Amara Lakhous

It's 2005. The Italian secret service has received intel that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighborhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian...


I Hadn't Understood

by Diego de Silva

Malinconico is a Neapolitan lawyer without a single case. He goes through the motions every day, leaving for the office punctually, shuffling papers when he gets to the studio he shares with a group of un-gainfully...


The Nun

by Simonetta Hornby

August 15, 1839. Messina, Italy. In the home of Marshall don Peppino Padellani di Opiri, preparations for the feast of the Ascension are underway. This may be the last happy day in the life of Agata, the Marshall's...


Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto

by Gianni Rodari & Antony Shugaar

A fable for children and adults: a story of life, death, and terrorism—in the grand tradition of Exupéry’s The Little Prince

When we first meet 93-year-old millionaire Baron Lamberto, he has been diagnosed...


The Day Before Happiness

by Erri Deluca & Michael Moore

Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling...


Me, You

by Erri Deluca & Michael Moore

The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman....


Everybody's Right

by Paolo Sorrentino & Antony Shugaar

Born on the streets and born singing, Tony Pagoda has had his day. But what a day it was!

He had fame, money, women, and talent. He spent his golden years entertaining a flourishing and garishly happy Italy....


Two Friends

by Alberto Moravia & Marina Harss

In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and morally...


Twice Born: A Novel

by Margaret Mazzantini

This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo.

Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from...


From the Land of the Moon

by Milena Agus & Ann Goldstein

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