The Wine-Dark Sea
9 best books like The Wine-Dark Sea (Leonardo Sciascia): Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, The Time of Indifference, I'm Not Scared, A Game of Hide and Seek, La variante di Lüneburg, The Florios of Sicily, Il fascismo eterno, The Blue Room, L'Œil du loup
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Author | Carlo Levi |
| ISBN | 0374530092 |
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...
| Author | Alberto Moravia |
| ISBN | 1586420054 |
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...
| Author | Niccolò Ammaniti |
| ISBN | 1400075637 |
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.
The hottest summer of the twentieth century....
Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then...
| Author | Paolo Maurensig |
| ISBN | 8845909840 |
Un colpo di pistola chiude la vita di un ricco imprenditore tedesco. È un incidente? Un suicidio? Un omicidio? L’esecuzione di una sentenza? E per quale colpa? La risposta vera è un’altra: è una mossa di scacchi. Dietro quel gesto si spalanca un inferno che ha la forma di una scacchiera. Risalendo...
| Author | Stefania Auci |
| ISBN | 0062931679 |
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.
Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...
“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare l’‘Ur-Fascismo’, o il ‘fascismo eterno’. L’Ur-Fascismo è ancora intorno a noi, talvolta in abiti civili. Sarebbe così confortevole, per noi, se qualcuno si affacciasse sulla...
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0752853805 |
Vain, womanising Tony and passionate, manipulative Andree met eight times in eleven months in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs for afternoons of abandoned love. For Tony the conversation that last time was just the casual, almost banal, talk of lovers. But for Andree it was something else. And...
| Author | Daniel Pennac |
| ISBN | 2266086421 |
They were born worlds apart, the wolf from the Far North and the boy from Yellow Africa. Now all that separates them is a cage at the zoo. The wolf has lost much on his journey, including an eye and his beloved pack. But when he finally consents to trust the strange, still little boy who has been watching him...
