Kamo : L'Agence Babel

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	1590171152

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...

Author

Gianni Rodari

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	Alex Sanchez
ISBN	0689857705

Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys. Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- especially his parents. Nelson Glassman is "out" to the entire world, but he can't tell the boy he loves that he wants...

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	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	0811209458

At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters – novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have dreamed up The Blue Flowers, Queneau's...

Author	Gianni Rodari
ISBN	8426155596

Érase una vez...
...una niña cuyo padre tenía que estar de viaje seis días a la semana. Esta niña no podía dormirse sin que le contaran un cuento. Y cada noche, su padre la llamaba por teléfono y le explicaba un cuento. Dicen que los cuentos eran tan buenos que hasta los operarios de la telefónica...

Author	Ágota Kristóf
ISBN	0099268078

Tobias abbandona il proprio paese dopo aver tentato di uccidere madre e padre con una sola coltellata e finisce per fare l'operaio qualsiasi in fabbrica. Raggiunge una specie di normalità narcotica che lo rinchiude in un isolamento da asceta, la cui unica forma di espressione sarà la scrittura e...

Author

David Grossman

The story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem are portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.

When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring...

Author	Italo Calvino
ISBN	0156260557

Difficult Loves is eleven very short stories in which Calvino is like a biologist at a microscope: analysing the sensation of a few minutes or hours in minute detail, revealing the patterns, beauty, and secrets of the mundane. They reminded me a little of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, published...