Jean-Baptiste Andrea:Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]
The latest addition to my website is Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]/. This novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2023. It tells the story iof Mimo (real…
The latest addition to my website is Jean-Baptiste Andrea's Veiller sur elle [Watch Over Her]/. This novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2023. It tells the story iof Mimo (real…
The latest addition to my website is Carmine Abate's Il ballo tondo (The Round Dance). Abate comes from the Arbëreshë community, descendants of Albanians who fled the Ottomans between between…
The latest addition to my website is Grazia Deledda's Marianna Sirca. The book is set in Deledda's native Sardinia. The eponymous heroine has worked all her life, obeying orders from…
The latest addition to my website is Fausta Cialente's Ballata Levantina (The Levantines). This novel tells the story of well-to-do European expatriates (primarily but certainly not exclusively Italian) living in…
The latest addition to my website is Daniele Mencarelli's Tutto chiede salvezza (Everything Calls For Salvation). This is an autobiographical novel about seven days Mencarelli spent in a mental institution…
The latest addition to my website is Luca Rastello's Piove all'insù (The Rain’s Falling Up. The book is primarily set in the 1970s-80s in Turin, though told from the perspective…
The latest addition to my website is Marino Magliani's Soggiorno a Zeewijk (A Window to Zeewijk). This is a novel in the tradition of writers such as W G Sebald…
The latest addition to my website is Maurizio Maggiani's Il romanzo della nazione [The Novel of the Nation]. Despite its somewhat arrogant title, it is, in fact, primarily the story…
The latest addition to my website is Corrado Alvaro's L’uomo è forte (Man Is Strong; later: Fear in the World). This novel, first published in 1938, tells of an unnamed…
The latest addition to my website is Andrea Bajani's Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins). Our narrator is Lorenzo who learns of the death of…