The Snow Geese

Author	Giorgio Bassani
ISBN	1400044227

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...

Author	Anita Brookner
ISBN	0679759328

In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her...

Author	Edith Pearlman
ISBN	0316297224

A new story collection from Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award for her last collection, Binocular Vision.

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Binocular Vision, Honeydew further solidifies...

Author	Giorgio Van Straten
ISBN	8858123263

Questo libro racconta la storia di libri che c'erano e non ci sono più. I libri perduti non sono libri dimenticati oppure libri pensati dall'autore e mai nati. Sono quelli che l'autore ha scritto, che qualcuno ha visto, magari ha anche letto, e che poi sono stati distrutti o dei quali non si è saputo più...

Author	Richard Mabey
ISBN	0701176016

Richard Mabey's descent into clinical depression was so annihilating that he could neither work nor play, nor sustain relationships with family or friends. He was drinking too much — and, worst of all, had lost all pleasure in the outside world. This remarkable book charts his gradual return to joyfulness....

Author	Kathleen Jamie
ISBN	0954221745

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary...