This is a charming tale about an elegant and smooth-talking city trickster who invites himself to...
The Brothers Karamazov 1
The Brothers Karamazov, the culmination of Dostoyevsky's work, was completed in 1880, shortly...
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Mario Vargas Llosa wrote about Borges as follows: "His is a world of clear, pure and at the same...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
"An engaging, impressive and moving literary novel.The density and poise of its descriptions of...
The Venice Train
During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris, a stranger asks Justin Calmar to...
The Leopard
In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of...
Fontamara
Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was...
The Moro Affair
On 16th March 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three...
The Book of Mother
Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s...
The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By
Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Until the day he discovers that his...