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10 best books like Il segreto di Luca (Ignazio Silone): The Threepenny Opera, The Late Mattia Pascal, The Day of the Owl, Sostiene Pereira, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Periodic Table, The Time of Indifference, The Moon and the Bonfire, I'm Not Scared

The Threepenny Opera
AuthorBertolt Brecht
ISBN1559702524
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic...
The Late Mattia Pascal
AuthorLuigi Pirandello
ISBN1590171152
Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...
The Day of the Owl
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....
Sostiene Pereira
AuthorAntonio Tabucchi
ISBN8433966324
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
AuthorGiorgio Bassani
ISBN1400044227
Giorgio Bassani's acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.
Made into an Academy Award winning film in 1970, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis "is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction...
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
AuthorCarlo Levi
ISBN0374530092
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
The Periodic Table
AuthorPrimo Levi
ISBN0805210415
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...
The Time of Indifference
AuthorAlberto Moravia
ISBN1586420054
In 1929, the fifth year of the Fascist era and the twenty-first year of Alberto Moravia's life, the Italian literary world was stunned by the appearance of his first novel, The Time of Indifference. It is a deceptively simple story – five characters, the events of a few days, the intrigues of families...
The Moon and the Bonfire
AuthorCesare Pavese
ISBN0720611199
Anguila, the narrator, is a successful businessman lured home from California to the Piedmontese village where he was fostered by peasants. After 20 years, so much has changed. Slowly, with the power of memory, he is able to piece together the past, and relate it to what he finds left in the present. He...
I'm Not Scared
AuthorNiccolò Ammaniti
ISBN1400075637
In this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he daren’t tell anyone about it. Read an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse today.

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Agostino
AuthorAlberto Moravia
ISBN2080684426
Agostino, un adolescent de treize ans, passe de merveilleuses vacances sur une plage avec sa mère à qui il voue une passion aussi intense qu'innocente. La rencontre de celle-ci et d'un jeune homme auquel elle est loin d'être insensible met un terme brutal à ce parfait bonheur: Agostino découvre...
The Ragazzi
AuthorPier Paolo Pasolini
An unsentimental depiction of the poverty and chaotic lives of those in the slums of 1950s postwar Rome, this novel follows Ricetto, an Italian youth, and his gang who survive by their wits, their cruelty, and their instincts for survival. Their lives are shaped by hunger, theft, betrayal, and prostitution,...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
AuthorItalo Calvino
ISBN0060956585
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult...
Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
AuthorUgo Foscolo
ISBN1843910020
Written as an epistolary monologue, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a compelling portrayal of a troubled mind. Published here for the first time in the English language, it is presented with Foscolo's highly acclaimed poem, Of Tombs. Banished from his homeland and from the woman he loves, Jacopo Ortis...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143039881
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
The Night of Wishes
AuthorMichael Ende
ISBN0374455031
On New Year's Eve, Maledictus Maggot, legal officer of His Excellency the Minister of Pitch Darkness, arrives in the laboratory of Shadow Sorcery Minister Beelzebub Preposteror, to remind Beelzebub that he's behind on his contract to wreak havoc on the world, and that if he does not make good before...
Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca
AuthorLuigi Bertelli
ISBN8809050509
Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca, Luigi Bertelli
Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca is an Italian novel by Vamba (aka Luigi Bertelli). It was first published, between 1907 and 1908, in sequential installments in the children magazine, and in 1912 it was published in book format. Set in Tuscany and partly...
Exercises in Style
AuthorRaymond Queneau
ISBN0811207897
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From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.

Snobbish

Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...
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