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Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical...


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...


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...


Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

by Amara Lakhous & Ann Goldstein

A compelling mix of social satire and murder mystery.

A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An...


God's Mountain

by De Luca, Erri

This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open. He lives in Montedidio-God's Mountain-a cluster of alleys in the heart...


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...


Don't Move

by Margaret Mazzantini & John Cullen

Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born....


Three Horses

by Erri De Luca & Michael Moore

From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer.

"A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first."...


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...


The Marchesa

by Simonetta Agnello Hornby & Alastair Mcewen

A richly evocative tale of a woman's struggle for life and love  A triumphant follow-up to Simonetta Agnello Hornby's internationally

acclaimed The Almond Picker, this entertaining new novel is an intricate...


Sicilian Tragedee

by Ottavio Cappellani & Frederika Randall

Balding, forty-something Mister Alfio Turrisi, an up-and-coming mafioso in Catania, has the deep pockets that London’s financial world loves. He, in turn, loves Betty, the spoiled young daughter of Turi Pirrotta,...


The Natural Disorder of Things

by Andrea Canobbio & Abigail Asher

Claudio Fratta is a garden designer at the height of his career; a naturally solitary man, a tender, playful companion to his nephews, and a considerate colleague. But under his amiable exterior simmers a quiet...


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...


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...


The Scent of Your Breath

by Melissa P. & Shaun Whiteside

Melissa P.'s fictionalized memoir, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed, became an international literary phenomenon, selling over two million copies worldwide and inspiring profiles in Vanity Fair and The New...


100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

by Melissa P. & Lawrence Venuti

An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian...


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...


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...


The Lost Daughter

by Elena Ferrante

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood...