At the end of the eighteenth century, a prince, a sculptor, and a wealthy merchant arrive in Naples from Flanders. They visit a celebrated glover, a widower with his two y...
An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who bec...
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her fam...
Set in the mid-18th century, Dacia Maraini's unforgettable novel tells the story of three generations of the Ucria family, seen through the watchful eyes of the deaf-mute ...
Leo is an Italian writer in his thirties. Thomas, his German lover, is dead. On a plane to Munich, Thomas?s home town, Leo slips into a reverie of their meeting and life i...
Set in Geneva, this novel relates the story of a young Italian physicist engaged in an experiment to discover new subatomic particles and an ageing German writer who is re...
'A lot of people lose their way in India . . . it's a country specially made for that.'
Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Po...
"Seminar on Youth" is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he p...
В настоящий том собрания сочинений Итало Кальвино (1923-1985) вошли поздние произведения автора: знаменитый роман `Если однажды зимней ночью путник` (1979); повесть `Палом...
An aging man attempts to recover the past and get his life back on track in the process. His deceased mother, Aracoeli, came from a small Spanish town and married an upper...
In the last months of World War II, a young man with a fatal disease, straight out the army, is sent to a TB sanatorium near Palermo. It feels like a leper colony- people ...
The narrator of "Brothers" is his brother's keeper, trying to impose order on the domestic vortex caused by the latter's inadequacies and demands. He tells the story in or...
Composed of narrative, letters, depositions and fragments, this novel evokes the hopes, despairs, false starts and brutal ends of a struggle for change during the Risorgim...
Goffredo Parise began working on a series of poems in prose in 1970. ABECEDARY contains the first group of these stories, originally published in Italy in 1972. ABECEDARY'...
Сборник включает романы, повести и рассказы известного итальянского писателя, где он рассматривает глубокие нравственно-философские проблемы, обращаясь и к истории, и к со...
Soon after her mother's death, a woman returns to the village where she grew up to reflect on her childhood years. Atmospheric and dreamlike, this novel by one of the clas...
Романы, повести и рассказы Наталии Гинзбург отличаются богатством образной палитры и тонким психологизмом. Произведения писательницы - это раздумья об эпохе, о смысле жизн...