Il giorno del giudizio

Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN	0679731210

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...

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	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...

Author

John Niven

It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.

Meet Steven Stelfox.

London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop...

Author	Bernard Malamud
ISBN	0374504849

Bernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when broken-nosed Frank Alpine becomes his...

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Maurizio de Giovanni

La seconda avventura del commissario Ricciardi, l'uomo che possiede il dono (o la condanna) di sentire le ultime parole pronunciate da chi muore di morte violenta, quello che lui chiama "il Fatto".
Napoli, aprile 1931. Il vento di primavera si annuncia nella notte di una giornata fredda e cupa...

Author	Maitreyi Devi
ISBN	0226143651

Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to Calcutta to study with her father. More than forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, the novel Eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases,...