Italy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671428Author Antonio MorescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 195g

Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915568229Author Diego MaraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Lucy Honeychurch arrives in Italy for the first time, dependent on a Baedeker travel guide and her stern chaperone, Miss Bartlett. As she explores Florence, Lucy realises the constraints of her middle-class upbringing and finds herself attracted to...

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as...

Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting...

In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's...

A body in a pool. A rifle. And a scream that carries across the valley. But is that the end, or just the beginning? It's been a hard couple of years, but things finally seem to be looking up for Danielle. Her boyfriend Matteo has inherited a...

The third instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the Renaissance. Fontainebleau, 1536. Francis II, Dauphin and heir to the French throne, is dead. Poisoned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972083Author Joie DavidowFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377148Author Dino BuzzatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Fiona, sixteen, lives a life of glittering luxury, but her relationship with her mother is strained and difficult. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542010Author Alain ElkannFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Nobel Prize for Literature 1926.Book InformationISBN 9781915568342Author Grazia DeleddaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635422047Author Mario FortunatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868996375Author Walter the EducatorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Silent King BooksPublisher Silent King BooksWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625492Author Carmelo BeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737639145Author K M ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Firsthand Account PressPublisher Firsthand Account PressWeight(grams) 472g

A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a great truth: that people are machines built by other...

Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives?    In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe...

Christ’s nemesis Judas Iscariot remains a shadowy figure in the four canonical gospels, which give contradictory reasons for why this rogue disciple betrays Christ. But how would Judas himself explain his motives?    In Glory, Italian modernist Giuseppe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642861105Author Claudia PetrucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint World Editions LtdPublisher World Editions LtdWeight(grams) 139g

A young wife in a nineteenth-century Sicilian village, Marta is deeply in love with her husband Rocco and pregnant with his child. But when Rocco discovers a letter written to Marta by a would-be suitor, he falsely accuses her of infidelity and banishes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420685Author Edoardo NesiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC