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9 best books like La rosa di Alessandria (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán): The Shape of Water, The Ragazzi, It's a Busy, Busy World, Benediction, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, Cuentos por teléfono, La fata carabina, Pulvis et umbra, Limonov

The Shape of Water
AuthorAndrea Camilleri
ISBN0142004715
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes...
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,...
It's a Busy, Busy World
AuthorRichard Scarry
ISBN0307655393
Perhaps I would be able to appreciate and enjoy Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World somewhat more if I had first encountered it as a young child (which no, I did not). For yes, I can certainly and to a point both see and understand how the combination of Richard Scarry's narrative and images is imbued with...
Benediction
AuthorKent Haruf
ISBN0307959880
When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with their daughter, to make his final days as comfortable as possible, despite the bitter absence of their estranged son. Next door, a young girl moves in with her grandmother and contends with the memories that...
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
AuthorVaseem Khan
ISBN0316386820
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.

The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high...
Cuentos por teléfono
AuthorGianni Rodari
ISBN8426155596
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...
La fata carabina
AuthorDaniel Pennac
ISBN8807812576
Intenta ad attraversare la strada con tutta la circospezione dovuta all'età avanzata, una vecchietta tremolante impugna improvvisamente una P38, prende la mira e fa secco un giovane commissario di polizia... È proprio attorno ai vecchietti che gira questo nerissimo romanzo di Pennac: vecchietti...
Pulvis et umbra
AuthorAntonio Manzini
In "Pulvis et umbra" due trame si svolgono in parallelo. Ad Aosta si trova il cadavere di una trans. A Roma, in un campo verso la Pontina, due cani pastore annusano il cadavere di un uomo che porta addosso un foglietto scritto. L'indagine sul primo omicidio si smarrisce urtando contro identità nascoste...
Limonov
AuthorEmmanuel Carrère
ISBN2818014050
« Limonov n’est pas un personnage de fiction. Il existe. Je le connais. Il a été voyou en Ukraine ; idole de l’underground soviétique sous Brejnev ; clochard, puis valet de chambre d’un milliardaire à Manhattan ; écrivain branché à Paris ; soldat perdu dans les guerres des Balkans ; et...
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