Artemisia
9 best books like Artemisia (Anna Banti): That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, A Woman, Lessico famigliare, The Secretary, Comme un roman, The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels, On The Black Hill, Chagrin d'école, Il sogno della macchina da cucire
| Author | Carlo Emilio Gadda |
| ISBN | 1590172221 |
In a large apartment house in the center of Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective...
| Author | Sibilla Aleramo |
| ISBN | 0520049497 |
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly acclaimed translations into all the principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained...
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 8806151681 |
Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza,...
| Author | Renée Knight |
| ISBN | 0062362356 |
Renée Knight follows up her international sensation Disclaimer with this shivery tale of psychological suspense, featuring a character as disturbing and compelling as Mrs. Danvers in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
From her first day as Personal Assistant to the celebrated Mina Appleton,...
First line: "You can't make someone read. Just as you can't make them fall in love or dream..." First U.S. edition of an eloquent defense of (among other things) the right to dip, skip and flip reading choices---available for many years in the UK, due out on this side of the Pond in November (but there are...
The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
| Author | Ágota Kristóf |
| ISBN | 0802135064 |
These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing...
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.
In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis...
| Author | Daniel Pennac |
| ISBN | 2070769178 |
« Donc, j’étais un mauvais élève. Chaque soir de mon enfance, je rentrais à la maison poursuivi par l’école. Mes carnets disaient la réprobation de mes maîtres. Quand je n’étais pas le dernier de ma classe, c’est que j’en étais l’avant-dernier. (Champagne!) Fermé à l’arithmétique...
Il sogno della macchina da cucire
| Author | Bianca Pitzorno |
| ISBN | 8845299031 |
C'è stato un tempo in cui non esistevano le boutique di prêt-à-porter e tantomeno le grandi catene di moda a basso prezzo, e ogni famiglia che ne avesse la possibilità faceva cucire abiti e biancheria da una sarta: a lei era spesso dedicata una stanza della casa, nella quale si prendevano misure,...
