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The Prince (Paperback)
Vito Bruschini; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An anti-fascist history
lesson disguised as a novel' New York Times 'Extraordinary' TLS
'The novel Italy has been waiting for. A masterpiece' Roberto
Saviano A startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of
unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical
fiction. M tells the story of the rise of fascism from within the
mind of its founder. A gripping and masterful expose, it explores
Benito Mussolini's rise to power and a movement that, amidst a
failing democracy, came to shape the world. 'Panoptic and
polyphonic, Scurati's book gives us the experiences of the fearful
and the feared, the rhetoric of both the revolutionaries and the
reactionaries ... an immense mosaic' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New
Statesman 'An indisputable literary achievement ... Italo Calvino
would have loved it' El Pais
Based on a remarkable true story, Don't Tell Me You're Afraid is a
moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope. Samia Omar grows
up in war-torn Somalia, dreaming of being a world-class sprinter.
She sleeps with a photo of Mo Farah by her bed and trains hard.
After achieving a place on the national team to compete in the
Beijing Olympics, she sets her sights on the 2012 games in London.
But with the war encroaching on the lives of her family, Samia
decides to join her sister and make the treacherous journey to
Europe, putting her life and her dreams in the hands of
traffickers.
Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage
career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of
quiet compromise - until one day she bumps into her old theater
director, Mauro, who fans the acting flame back to life. But
setting a restless soul on fire can be dangerous if the leading
actress loses sight of the boundary between reality and fiction -
and Giorgia collapses, ending up in a clinic. Filippo and Mauro
find themselves both accomplices and adversaries, seduced by a
dangerous game to heal and win back Giorgia: by writing the script
for her perfect life.
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Solitary (Hardcover)
Maurizio Torchio; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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R586
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We learn more every year about the damaging effects of solitary
confinement. This unquestionably cruel and unusual punishment
leaves prisoners with no human contact, sometimes for years at a
time, and it nearly always leads to lasting trauma. In Solitary,
Maurizio Torchio takes on the daunting task of narrating this most
isolating experience, one in which the captive is not only cut off
from society in the walls of a prison, but from human contact
itself. Within this closed world seemingly out of time, the
prisoner still yearns for human contact. Ultimately, this desire is
a form of hope, reminding us that ineluctable human qualities
survive even in the most inhumane spaces.
In Dichtersruhe Everyone's a writer. So when the devil turns up in
a black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied
authorial desires are unleashed and the village's former harmony is
shattered. Taut with foreboding and Gothic suspense, Paolo
Maurensig gives us a refined and engaging literary parable on
narcissism, vainglory, and our inextinguishable thirst for stories.
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Deviation (Paperback)
Luce D'eramo; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young
fascist. At the age of eighteen, she decides to volunteer in the
Nazi labour camps in Germany. Wishing to disprove what she sees as
the lies that are being told about Nazi-Fascism, she instead
encounters the horrors of life there - and is changed completely.
Shedding her identity, she joins a group of deportees being sent to
Dachau concentration camp. She escapes the camp in October 1944,
and wanders around a Germany devastated by allied bombardments.
Then, in February 1945, while helping dig in rubble seeking to
rescue survivors, a wall falls on her and she is left paralysed
from the waist down. Translated into English for the first time,
Deviation is an autobiographical novel about the repression of
memory, and one woman's attempt to make sense of the hell she has
lived through.
A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire,
youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international
bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers "Perfect,
moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old
friends." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an
electrifying presence in contemporary fiction." -Andre Aciman,
author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me Every summer Teresa
follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the
heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old
olive groves and families who have lived there for generations. She
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her
grandmother's paperbacks. Everything changes the summer she meets
the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso and
Bern-the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like
brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time,
the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly
unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly
endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is resentment
underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind
of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern-the enigmatic,
restless gravitational center of the group-commits a brutal act of
revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will
be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow
of the olive trees. An unforgettable story of enduring love, the
bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven
and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of
unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the
old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose
ourselves.
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The Art of Joy (Paperback)
Goliarda Sapienza; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year
span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza
had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a
publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to
its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter
exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for
decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten
masterpiece" when it was eventually published in 2005. This epic
Sicilian novel, which begins in the year 1900 and follows its main
character, Modesta, through nearly the entire span of the 20th
century, is at once a coming-of-age novel, a tale of sexual
adventure and discovery, a fictional autobiography, and a sketch of
Italy's moral, political and social past. Born in a small Sicilian
village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a
convent raised by nuns.Through sheer cunning, she manages to
escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and
determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life
and sets about destroying all social barriers that impede her quest
for the fulfilment of her desires. She seduces both men and women,
and even murder becomes acceptable as a means of removing an
obstacle to happiness and self-discovery. Goliarda Sapienza
(1924-1996) was born in Catania, Sicily in 1924, in an anarchist
socialist family. At sixteen, she entered the Academy of Dramatic
Arts in Rome and worked under the direction of Luchino Visconti,
Alessandro Blasetti and Francesco Maselli. She is the author of
several novels published during her lifetime: Lettera Aperta
(1967), Il Filo Di Mezzogiorno (1969), Universita di Rebibbia
(1983), Le Certezze Del Dubbio (1987). L'Arte Della Gioia is
considered her masterpiece. Anne Milano Appel, Ph.D., a former
library director and language teacher, has been translating
professionally for nearly twenty years, and is a member of ALTA,
ATA, NCTA and PEN. Her translation of Giovanni Arpino's Scent of a
Woman (Penguin, 2011) was named the winner of The John Florio Prize
for Italian Translation (2013).
In 1930s British India, a humble servant learns the art of
chaturanga, the ancient Eastern ancestor of chess. His natural
talent soon catches the attention of the maharaja, who introduces
him to the Western version of the game. Brought to England as the
prince's pawn, Malik becomes a chess legend, winning the world
championship and humiliating the British colonialists. His skills
as a refined strategist eventually drag him into a strange game of
warfare with far-reaching consequences.
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a
deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of
trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold,
where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where
many courageous individuals defy the system, and millions work
tirelessly for a better future. 'Saviano is a blazingly vivid and
courageous writer' Independent 'A national hero' Umberto Eco
'Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly
about terrible things' Le Parisien 'Brave and passionate' Guardian
'One of the world's finest investigative journalists' GQ
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Heaven and Earth (Paperback)
Paolo Giordano; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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'A devastating marvel of a novel' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly
enjoyable novel... Giordano is especially good on the textures,
smells, heat and colours of the Italian south. These stay long in
the mind, as does the way he writes about the obsessiveness of
love, the way it dominates and distorts and the self-delusions and
fantasies it gives rise to' TLS 'If you're pining for an Italian
break, then this might be the remedy: Heaven And Earth is rooted so
deep in idyllic Puglia that you can almost feel the red soil under
your sandals' Daily Mail 'Raw and evocative: a breathtaking and
poignant creation that will leave you itching under the skin'
Herald 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By
Your Name 'Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who
feel like old friends' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Less 'The perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the
handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every
summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia,
down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat,
centuries-old olive groves and taciturn, proud people. There Teresa
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading
her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks. Everything changes the
summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door:
Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of
her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa
almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate
and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no
summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is
resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a
twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern -
the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits
a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of
the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours
in the shadow of the olive trees. PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO
'Mesmerizing... Giordano works with piercing subtlety' New York
Times 'Elegant and fiercely intelligent' Elle 'Elegiac, tender and
mournful' Wall Street Journal
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Deviation (Hardcover)
Luce D'eramo; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come
out on the other side' Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as
a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, the headstrong
protagonist decides to volunteer in the Nazi labour camps in
Germany. Wishing to disprove what she sees as the lies that are
being told about Nazi-Fascism, she instead encounters the horrors
of life there - and is changed completely. Shedding her identity,
she joins a group of deportees being sent to Dachau concentration
camp. She escapes the camp in October 1944, and wanders around a
Germany devastated by allied bombardments. Then, in February 1945,
while helping dig in rubble seeking to rescue survivors, a wall
falls on her and she is left paralysed from the waist down.
Translated into English for the first time, Deviation is an
autobiographical novel about the repression of memory, and one
woman's attempt to make sense of the hell she has lived through.
He's finally letting go of the memory of his murdered girlfriend.
Then he sees her texts. Alice was a hopeful young graduate student
when, on a beautiful August night, her body was found in the woods.
She'll always remember the night she was murdered. And she still
suffers the grief and rage that destroyed her family. But what
Alice regrets most is the last fight she had with her boyfriend,
Enrico-and the fact that she never had the chance to tell him
something that would have changed everything. A decade later,
Enrico has returned to the provincial town where Alice lived and
died, to sell his family home. All he wants is to forget. But then,
among the things he left behind, he finds an old cell phone...and
unread texts sent from Alice's phone. Now, her terrible secrets are
about to swallow up everyone she knew, loved, and trusted. For
Enrico, discovering them is his only chance to put his lost
love-and the demons of his past-to rest.
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Journeying (Hardcover)
Claudio Magris; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the
very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment
impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and
wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume
writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of
several decades. He has traveled through these years with many
beloved companions, to whom he dedicates the book, and sought the
kind of journey "that occurs when you abandon yourself to [the
gentle current of time] and to whatever life brings." Taken
together Magris's essays share a clearly identified theme. They
represent the motif of the journey in all its aspects-literary,
metaphysical, spiritual, mythical, philosophical, historical-as
well as the author's comprehensive understanding of the subject or,
one might say, of his own way of being in the world. Traveling from
Spain to Germany to Poland, Norway, Vietnam, Iran, and Australia,
he records particular moments and places through a highly personal
lens. A writer's writer and a reader's traveler, Magris proves that
wandering is equal part wondering.
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Three Light-Years (Paperback)
Andrea Canobbio; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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Deviation (Paperback)
Luce D'eramo; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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Blameless (Hardcover)
Claudio Magris; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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From one of Europe's most revered authors, a tale of one man's
obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and
humanity's darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio
Magris's searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession
with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale
centers on a man whose maniacal devotion to the creation of a
Museum of War involves both a horrible secret and the hope of
redemption. Luisa Brooks, his museum's curator, a descendant of
victims of Jewish exile and of black slavery, has a complex
dilemma: will the collections she exhibits save humanity from
repeating its tragic and violent past? Or might the display of
articles of war actually valorize and memorialize evil atrocities?
In Blameless Magris affirms his mastery of the novel form,
interweaving multiple themes and traveling deftly through history.
With a multitude of stories, the author investigates individual
sorrow, the societal burden of justice aborted, and the ways in
which memory and historical evidence are sabotaged or sometimes
salvaged.
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Heaven and Earth (Paperback)
Paolo Giordano; Translated by Anne Milano Appel
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'A devastating marvel of a novel' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly
enjoyable novel... Giordano is especially good on the textures,
smells, heat and colours of the Italian south. These stay long in
the mind, as does the way he writes about the obsessiveness of
love, the way it dominates and distorts and the self-delusions and
fantasies it gives rise to' TLS 'If you're pining for an Italian
break, then this might be the remedy: Heaven And Earth is rooted so
deep in idyllic Puglia that you can almost feel the red soil under
your sandals' Daily Mail 'Raw and evocative: a breathtaking and
poignant creation that will leave you itching under the skin'
Herald 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By
Your Name 'Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who
feel like old friends' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Less 'The perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the
handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every
summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia,
down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat,
centuries-old olive groves and taciturn, proud people. There Teresa
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading
her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks. Everything changes the
summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door:
Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of
her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa
almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate
and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no
summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is
resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a
twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern -
the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits
a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of
the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours
in the shadow of the olive trees. PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO
'Mesmerizing... Giordano works with piercing subtlety' New York
Times 'Elegant and fiercely intelligent' Elle 'Elegiac, tender and
mournful' Wall Street Journal
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