Fiction / Italian literature

Black Run

Rocco Schiavone #1

by Antonio Manzini

Already an international hit, a sly, sizzling mystery—the first in a sensational crime series—set in the Italian Alps, reminiscent of the works of Andrea Camilleri, D. A. Mishani, Donna Leon, and Henning...

Truck driver

by Giovanni Zeoli

Giovanni è un camionista: giorni e notti sulla strada, solitudine e lunghe distanze, rapporti quasi esclusivamente telefonici, la branda dietro ai sedili come alcova. E all'alba si riparte, per una nuova transumanza...

Gestures

by Carlo Bordini

English Translation by Nail Chiodo Editrice Zona - Quintadicopertina with Italian original text and bilingual apparatus con testo originale in Italiano e apparati bilingue Questa silloge di testi attraversa...

Reasonable Doubts

Guido Guerrieri #3

by Gianrico Carofiglio & Howard Curtis

Third in the Guerrieri series: a legal thriller by an Italian prosecutor. Turow with wry humor.

Involuntary Witness

Guido Guerrieri #1

by Gianrico Carofiglio & Patrick Creagh

A black immigrant is accused of child murder in Italy; the court procedural is tainted with racism.

The Children's Train

by Viola Ardone & Clarissa Botsford

Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy—written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours—about poor children from the...

ALOHA Alito di vita Non solo cancro

by Barbara Mariani

"Aloha" è una tra le testimonianze più vere e umane che possiate incontrare. Genuino e avvolgente come l'abbraccio di una madre. Accingetevi alla lettura aspettandovi di essere immersi dalla stessa inebriante,...

The Lehman Trilogy

by Stefano Massini & Richard Dixon

Magnificent in scope,  internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired the sensational West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name. The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and...

A Girl Returned

by Donatella Di Pietrantonio & Ann Goldstein

Winner of the Campiello Prize.

A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator.

“I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I...

Sanctuary

by Luca D'Andrea

In his haunting follow-up to the acclaimed Beneath the Mountain, Luca D’Andrea returns to the stunning Italian landscape of Alto Adige in this clever, twisting thriller that follows a woman on the run from...

We Are Family

by Fabio Bartolomei & Antony Shugaar

Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he, alone, will save the human race. But first, he has to solve a far more urgent problem: finding a home for...

Doppio Gioco

by Robert Mc Castle

In Italia alla fine del 2011, inizio 2012, una serie di personaggi dal dubbio passato e dall'incerto presente, al servizio dei principali servizi segreti mondiali, si muovono e agiscono allo scopo di portare...

Ai bambini ci pensa Bin Laden

by Gianluca Comuniello

Un piccolo paese italiano, nel settembre 2001. "Puoi arrivare a piedi ovunque in dieci minuti. Questo per dire quanto è piccolo". Un edicolante arabo. Uno stanzino segreto nella sua cartoleria. Tre bambini...

The Street Kids

by Pier Paolo Pasolini & Ann Goldstein

The Street Kids is the most important novel by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo Pasolini. A powerful, groundbreaking contemporary classic, The Street Kids is now available...

The Sacco Gang

by Andrea Camilleri & Stephen Sartarelli

Based on a true story, a “wild west” tale of two brothers who battle both the State and a Mafia empire in 1920s Italy.

Raffadali, province of Agrigento, 1920s. The Sacco brothers are free men with strong...

Trick

2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature #7

by Domenico Starnone & Jhumpa Lahiri

Sharp, succinct storytelling and breathtaking prose combine in this new novel by the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New York Times editor’s pick, a Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best...

The Athenian Women

by Alessandro Barbero & Antony Shugaar

The Athenian Women offers a powerful vision of class struggle, the subjugation of women, and the courage needed to change the course of history.

Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, just outside the city gates,...

The Apothecary's Shop

by Roberto Tiraboschi & Katherine Gregor

In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the protagonists of The Apothecary’s Shop chase a dream of rebirth, the eternal fantasy of defeating...

Ferocity

by Nicola Lagioia & Antony Shugaar

Ferocity combines the suspense of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, the contemporary realism of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, and the fierce Mediterranean vision displayed in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet....

Suburra

by Giancarlo De Cataldo, Carlo Bonini & Antony Shugaar

Fast-paced crime thriller set in Rome: Gomorrah meets House of Cards

Suburra will be released as a Netflix original series in 2017

Criminals on the rise and senior members of the Italian mafia clash in and around...