Paola Capriolo: Il doppio regno (The Dual Realm)
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Il doppio regno (The Dual Realm). This is another strange novel from Capriolo. It is a diary written by an Italian…
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Il doppio regno (The Dual Realm). This is another strange novel from Capriolo. It is a diary written by an Italian…
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Il nocchiero (The Helmsman). This tells the story of a helmsman, Walter. The job consists of driving a barge from a…
The latest addition to my website is Elena Ferrante's Storia del nuovo cognome (The Story of a New Name), the second in her L’amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend) series. This…
The latest addition to my website is Elena Ferrante's L’amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend). This novel has had considerable success, both in English and Italian and, with the fourth in…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Sebastiano Vassalli: Le due chiese [The Two Churches]. This is set in a fictitious part of Italy but what seems to…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Marco e Mattio [Marco and Mattio]. Like other Vassalli novels this one is based on a real story, in this case…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Il cigno (The Swan). This is Vassalli's Mafia novel, for which he got some criticism, not least because he is a…
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's La chimera (The Chimera). Set in Italy at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, this is…
The latest addition to my website is Francesco Piccolo's Il desiderio di essere come tutti. This is a very political novel, telling the story of a man who is now…
The latest addition to my website is Francesco Pecoraro's La vita in tempo di pace [Life in Peacetime]. Though somewhat long-winded, this a worthwhile novel about Ivo Brandani, an Italian…