Equal Danger
10 best books like Equal Danger (Leonardo Sciascia): Fontamara, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, La torta in cielo, Fatale, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Via delle Oche, Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and, The Salutation, The Book of My Life, Poem Strip, Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico
| Author | Ignazio Silone |
| ISBN | 3462025996 |
Fontamara fu pubblicato a Zurigo nel 1933. Ambientato in un paesino abruzzese, Fontamara appunto, racconta l'eterno conflitto tra "cafoni" e "cittadini", reso ancora più drammatico dall'avvento del fascismo. I contadini e i braccianti, rassegnati ormai e quasi assuefatti a subire senza reagire...
| 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...
Sul cielo di una borgata romana, una mattina d'aprile appare un enorme oggetto circolare. I marziani! I marziani! gridano gli abitanti uscendo dalle case e dai negozi, e accalcandosi in piazza. Arrivano due professori, i vigili, la polizia, autoblinde e soldati. Ma sono due ragazzi, Paolo e Rita,...
| Author | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
| ISBN | 1590173813 |
An NYRB Classics Original
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous)...
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 0143105663 |
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
| Author | Carlo Lucarelli |
| ISBN | 8838912599 |
Via delle Oche, a Bologna, è una strada rinomata. Prima della Legge Merlin, vi erano le case chiuse. Tra mercoledì 14 aprile 1948 e giovedì 15 luglio 1948 (un pugno di mesi che include svolte decisive: le elezioni del Quarantotto, l'attentato a Togliatti, Bartali maglia gialla) un'inchiesta di...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| ISBN | 0940322838 |
After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out...
| Author | Girolamo Cardano |
| ISBN | 1590170164 |
A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1590173236 |
A New York Review Books Original
There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like...
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN | 1935744569 |
Written by Antonio Tabucchi, author of Indian Nocturne, one of the most renowned voices in European literature and the foremost Italian writer of his generation, this sublimely questioning, superbly imaginative collection of fragments and quasi-stories moves from impression to association...
| Author | Vasco Pratolini |
| ISBN | 8804423625 |
L'atroce vendetta delle belle del quartiere
Il mondo del quartiere, la rappresentazione corale della vita di un rione popolare di Firenze: il libro di Pratolini è una favola moderna ma dall'ossatura antica, che si richiama alla novella boccaccesca, dove il vero protagonista è proprio...
| Author | Andrea Camilleri |
| ISBN | 8838910987 |
Si capisce, leggendo Camilleri, che il suo piacere letterario maggiore, raccontando vicende della provincia siciliana (fatti veri su cui trama e ordisce la finzione, e quindi in sè semplici se non fossero intricate dall'essere appunto siciliane), è quello di riportare il dialogo vivo. E' un piacere...
| Author | Luigi Meneghello |
| ISBN | 8817009652 |
Liber nos a malo è la presentazione della vita e della cultura di Malo, un paese della provincia vicentina, negli anni Venti e Trenta, ricreata, con un misto di nostalgia affettuosa, di distacco ironico, e di rigorosa intelligenza, dall'autore ormai adulto. Attraverso il microcosmo di Malo viene...
The Professor and the Siren
| Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| ISBN | 1590177193 |
In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in addition to his internationally celebrated novel, The Leopard, also composed three shorter pieces of fiction that confirm and expand our picture of his brilliant late-blooming talent.
In the parable-like...
| Author | Arun Kolatkar |
| ISBN | 1590171632 |
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgramage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town -- a place that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as modern...
| Author | Ennio Flaiano |
| ISBN | 8845911969 |
Nessun libro come il Diario notturno (1956) riesce a contenere in sé - finemente distillata nella sostanza e nella forma - l'intera opera di Ennio Flaiano. Vi ritroviamo infatti tutti i contenuti primari del suo modo di essere, psicologico e letterario: il pessimismo lucido e dolente; la coscienza...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1883642655 |
Secrecy and Silence are second nature to Marcello Clerici, the hero of The Conformist, a book which made Alberto Moravia one of the world's most read postwar writers. Clerici is a man with everything under control - a wife who loves him, colleagues who respect him, the hidden power that comes with his...
| Author | Italo Svevo |
| ISBN | 0940322846 |
Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated...
| Author | Olivia Manning |
| ISBN | 1590173031 |
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding...
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0395860288 |
Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical...
