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By: Pavese, Cesare
The Leucothea Dialogues
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A shifting, primordial work by Cesare Pavese, plumbing the netherworlds of philosophy, myth, human feeling, and mortality

“Above all [Pavese’s novels] are works of an extraordinary depth where one nev

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- Author: Pavese, Cesare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1962770370
- Language: English
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By: Bajani, Andrea
The Book of Homes
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From prizewinning Italian author Andrea Bajani: the secrets of a man and his country as seen through the eyes of the homes that have guarded them.

The Book of Homes is the story of a man and his friend

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- Author: Bajani, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1646053818
- Language: English
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By: Grames, Juliet
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
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One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling–by turns funny and moving–novel … [more below]
- Author: Grames, Juliet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 059346981X
- Language: English
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By: Buzzati, Dino
The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories
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Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story.

Dino

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- Author: Buzzati, Dino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378671
- Language: English
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By: Grames, Juliet
The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
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One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling–by turns funny and moving–novel … [more below]
- Author: Grames, Juliet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593536177
- Language: English
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By: Terranova, Nadia
The Night Trembles
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Two stories converge in the aftermath of the devastating 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Calabria: a young woman sees a chance to avoid her impending arranged marriage and a boy manages to escape from t… [more below]
- Author: Terranova, Nadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214091
- Language: English
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By: Natoli, Luigi
Sicilian Avengers: Book One
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A thrilling Sicilian saga about the legendary secret sect purported to be forerunners of the Mafia, translated into English for the first time.Emerging from the dark streets and subterranean caves of … [more below]
- Series: Sicilian Avengers
- Author: Natoli, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769272
- Language: English
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By: Nesi, Edoardo
My Shadow Is Yours
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A recent college graduate accompanies a reclusive middle-aged writer on a chaotic road trip to Milan in this hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, friendship, and the pitfalls of nostalgia

In 1995

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- Author: Nesi, Edoardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420687
- Language: English
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By: Romano, Lalla
A Silence Shared
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“I was struck straightaway by the singular force of her taut, meditative, sorrowful writing.” — Jhumpa Lahiri

A diamond-sharp, Italian classic about the mysterious relationships between two partisan

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- Author: Romano, Lalla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278206
- Language: English
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By: Starnone, Domenico
The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan
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From the National Book Award Finalist Domenico Starnone comes a new novel about childhood, memory, obsession, and the fictions we live by.

Children can be cruel, and children can love as passionately a

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- Author: Starnone, Domenico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660477
- Language: English
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By: Calvino, Italo
Mr. Palomar
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Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman’s breasts, or… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0156627809
- Language: English
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By: Dino Buzzati
A Love Affair
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Accomplished in his career but unaccomplished in love, a middle-aged architect is torn apart by his obsession with an enigmatic young woman in this delicately told story of desire and abjection by a t… [more below]
- Author: Buzzati, Dino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377128
- Language: English
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By: Joie Davidow
Anything But Yes: A Novel of Anna del Monte, Jewish Citizen of Rome, 1749
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“An intricately detailed novel of resistance and community.” —Kirkus Reviews

This beautiful new work of historical fiction was inspired by the diary of an 18th-century Roman Jewish girl who was impris
- Author: Davidow, Joie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1958972088
- Language: English
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By: Alba de Céspedes
Her Side of the Story: From the Author of Forbidden Notebook
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“A courageous novel, beautifully imagined and written.”
–Elena Lappin, The Washington Post

“De Cespedes’ work has lost none of its subversive force”
–The New York Times Book Review

* “De C?pedes’s me

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- Author: de Céspedes, Alba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601433
- Language: English
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By: Dino Buzzati
The Stronghold
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A glory-starved soldier spends his life awaiting an absent, long-expected enemy in this influential Italian classic of existentialism, now newly translated and with its originally intended title resto… [more below]
- Author: Buzzati, Dino
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377144
- Language: English
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By: Mario Fortunato
South
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A New York Times Best Historical Fiction Book of 2023

Through the loves and losses of a middle-class family from Calabria, this heady, atmospheric saga retraces the history of twentieth-century Italy.
- Author: Fortunato, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422043
- Language: English