Fiction - World Literature - Italy

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway's masterpiece--a classic novel of World War I that is also a tender, haunting love story Ernest Hemingway drew from his own war experiences when he crafted this remarkable story of an American ambulance driver serving on the...

Three generations of the Ansaldo family grapple with the aftermath of a tragic murder in this sweeping, cinematic debut set in 1980s Rome, for fans of Elena Ferrante and Liz Moore. It's a sultry August night when sixteen-year-old Betta Ansaldo convinces her cousin Miriam...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE AN OTHERPPL AUGUST BOOK CLUB PICK Three generations of the Ansaldo family grapple with the aftermath of a tragic murder in this sweeping, cinematic debut set in 1980s Rome, for fans of Elena Ferrante and Liz Moore. It's...

A family divided by war... a promise forged beneath the Sicilian stars.1941, Pittsburg, California. Sixteen-year-old Annalisa Aiello huddles around the radio with her family when a special announcement shatters her world: Pearl Harbor has been bombed - where her brother is stationed on the...

A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors. Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first work of fiction and it remains his best known. Written...

A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism. An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the...

"Enthralling and eloquently bittersweet--a vivid historical portrait of the pivotal yet overlooked struggle to save Italian Jews in WWII, and how one unforgettable woman risks everything for love. Devereaux writes with great authority and masterfully blends imagination and history. A deeply affective novel that...

"Maddalena Vaglio Tanet captivates us from the very first sentence, telling through her stirring style the depths of fear and breadth of the human heart. As if Elena Ferrante's heroines had come to northern Italy to find themselves caught between tender longings and bitter...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Powerful." --The New Yorker"Brilliant." --The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." --NPR"Forceful, clear and morally engaged." --The Washington Post"Subversive." --The New York Times Book Review"An exquisite, tormented howl." --The Financial Times"Quick, propulsive, and addictive." --Los Angeles Review of...

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York...

An Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation. Winner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in...

"Beautifully nimble, solitary feats of imagination." --Seamus Heaney"Beguiling." --TimeA superbly crafted novel about one man's quest for order and reason in a chaotic and unreasonable worldMr. Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is...

After all, the "Moscarda" he believed himself to be was different when he was alone, or with his wife, his tenant, or his friends. And there were hundreds--no, thousands--of additional Moscardas in the minds of everyone who had met or heard of him.Moscarda grappled...

A hilarious exploration of the relativism of identity from Italian novelist and playwright Luigi Pirandello, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature. This uproarious new translation of One, None, and a Hundred Grand delivers the defining work of Italian existentialism to an English...

A 2025 International Booker Prize Shortlist Nominee A scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature. Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements...

Venice, 1710Poinsettia Girl is based on the story of Agata de la Pieta, an orphan musician of the Ospedale de la Pieta.Ten-year-old Agata's world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice,...

The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of...

Soon to be a major film adaptation by Luca Guadagnino, Separate Rooms is a masterpiece of Italian literature, and a heartbreaking portrait of love, grief, and the daily realities of being a gay man in 1980s Europe. Thomas, a young German musician, is dying....

The first book in Antonio Moresco's colossally disruptive Games of Eternity (Giochi dell'eternità) trilogy, translated into English for the first time.Upon its publication in Italy, The Beginnings was exactly that: the dawning of a new era. Like a photo-negative of Franz Kafka, or Virginia...

Poe and Kafka meet The Twilight Zone in this anthology of fifty fantastical tales, many of them reflecting the political and social energies of the time, by an Italian master of the short story. Dino Buzzati was a prolific writer of stories, publishing several...