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…
The latest addition to my website is Antonio Moresco's Canti del caos [Songs of Chaos]. This is the second book in his monumental trilogy. The book weighs in at well…
The latest addition to my website is Antonio Moresco's Gli Esordi [The Beginnings]. One of my favourite blogs was The Untranslated which sadly retired (though the old posts are still…
The latest addition to my website is Viola Di Grado's Cuore cavo (Hollow Heart). This s a very clever work about a twenty-five year Italian woman, Dorotea, who kills herself.…
The latest edition to my website is Viola Di Grado's Settanta acrilico trenta lana (70% Acrylic 30% Wool). This is a depressing novel about two Italian women, Livia and Camila,…