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Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante 9780241711194
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75LONGLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Natalia GinzburgThe first unabridged English... -
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante 9781681376844
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376844Author Elsa MoranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New... -
Arturo's Island Elsa Morante 9781805331971
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante 9780241711200
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Arturo's Island: A Novel by Elsa Morante 9781631496622
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.21Elsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's "deft translation" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island... -
Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante by Lily Tuck 9780061472596
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061472596Author Lily TuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher... -
The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's "Aracoeli" by Sara Fortuna 9780367603410
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80The Power of Disturbance combines literary scholars and experts with scholars from other disciplines who accepted the challenge of engaging with Elsa Morante's last novel, Aracoeli.About the... -
The World Saved by Kids – And Other Epics by Elsa Morante 9781803091921
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.42A representative text of a milieu marked by student protests and aspirations for moral and political renewal. First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath... -
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art by Stefania Lucamante 9781611477948
Booksplease Price: £113.11Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely... -
Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing: Rethinking Subjectivity, History, and the Power of Art by Stefania Lucamante 9781611477962
Booksplease Price: £51.20Elsa Morante's Politics of Writing is a collected volume of twenty-one essays written by Morante specialists and international scholars. Essays gather attention on four broad critical topics, namely... -
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy by Franco Baldasso
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining... -
Kafka's Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski 9781487506308
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.01While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka's Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to... -
Tonight is Already Tomorrow by Lia Levi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The tragic history of mid-century Europe told through the lives of ordinary people 1938. Thirty-two countries convene to decide how to deal with the influx of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria... -
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru 9780062356925
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific... -
Shearsman 81and 82 by Tony Frazer 9781848610279
Booksplease Price: £9.42This second double-issue of "Shearsman" magazine for 2009 includes work by Isobel Armstrong, Linda Black, Chris Brownsword, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, Mark Dickinson, Ray DiPalma, Sally Flint,... -
Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression by Patrizia Sambuco 9781611477900
Booksplease Price: £91.39Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on... -
Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression by Patrizia Sambuco 9781611477924
Booksplease Price: £43.76Italian Women Writers, 1800-2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on... -
The Rest Is Memory: A Novel by Lily Tuck 9781324095729
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.88First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a village in southeastern... -
A Multitude of Women: The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel by Stefania Lucamante
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A Multitude of Women looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between... -
Self-Portrait in the Studio Giorgio Agamben 9781803094656
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.36A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio-a familiar iconographic subject in the... -
Poetics of Becoming: Women’s Poetry in Italy’s Long Seventies by Adalgisa Giorgio 9781803741550
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets... -
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank 9781529925722
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'A masterclass in masterpieces' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty' JOSHUA COHEN'Sizzles with passion' TOM McCARTHYFor more than two decades, Edwin... -
Corporeal Bonds: The Daughter-Mother Relationship in Twentieth-Century Italian Women's Writing by Patrizia Sambuco 9781442644250
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.56The mother-daughter relationship is a popular theme in contemporary Italian writing but has never before been analysed in a comprehensive book-length study. In Corporeal Bonds, Patrizia Sambuco... -
The Friction of Life: An investigation on Renato Caccioppoli's life Lorenza Foschini 9783031652615
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.27Naples, May 8, 1959. Renato Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, captivating storyteller, highly cultured and multilingual, believed to be the grandson of the anarchist movement... -
Against Redemption: Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy by Franco Baldasso 9781531502386
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced... -
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various 9780241634455
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short... -
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States by Gregory L. Lucente 9780804728300
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions... -
Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel by Silvia Valisa
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.24Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal... -
Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander by Maria Anna Mariani 9780192868855
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case... -
Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies by Gian Maria Annovi 9781442649002
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £57.11After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino,... -
The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87Set in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy... -
Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon by Maria Ornella Marotti
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.27Contents: Introduction Revising the Canon: Italian Women Writers/Maria O. Marotti Part I: Canon Formation/Canon Revision Women Writers and the Canon in Contemporary Italy/JoAnn Cannon From One... -
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story... -
Elements Of Italy by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran 9781860499241
Booksplease Price: £18.18The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in... -
A Sister's Story by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A GIRL RETURNED, COMES A MOVING NEW NOVEL ABOUT SISTERHOOD, THE PAST AND ITS INDELIBLE MARKS * NATALIE PORTMAN'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR JULY 2022* *A... -
Stories of Southern Italy by Various
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil... -
The Cursed Friend Beatrice Salvioni 9780008694722
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24An unbreakable, life-changing friendship will lead two young girls from different worlds to rebel against the sexism, prejudice and injustice they face living in 1930s Italy in this... -
Fever by Jonathan Bazzi
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A multi-award-winning Italian debut, from a bold and original new voice in contemporary queer literature. Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan with his boyfriend of three years and their two... -
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank 9781911717201
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank's masterly account of the novel gone modern and the modern gone global is a critical... -
The Rest Is Memory: A Novel by Lily Tuck 9781324097099
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.56First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before...