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LA VITA A VENIRE
by Ada Murolo
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“Si fugge da un pericolo immaginario, si fugge da un ricordo doloroso, dal timore di un giudizio, si fugge da una dipendenza. Si fugge dalla paura di essere traditi da chi si ama. Anche sua figlia fugge. Tutti fuggiamo dai nostri fantasmi.”
In una Roma contemporanea sporca e fatiscente, Teresa Perz, insegnante di lettere classiche in pensione, vive da sola in un appartamento. È da tempo...
RICORDAMI NELL'ACQUA
by Eloisa Donadelli
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Suo padre scelse per lei un nome importante. Un nome che parlasse di acqua nella forma più amata, come in quella poesia che aveva sottolineato a matita. L’acqua che accompagnerà la loro vita in tutte le sue forme, nel vapore, nel ghiaccio, nelle acque termali che caratterizzano il paese di Aquasalus. L’acqua che segnerà, nel bene e nel male, le loro vite.
È l’ultima settimana di...
SENTIRAI PARLARE DI ME
by Sara Rattaro
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Bianca ha un sogno: da grande vuole fare la giornalista. Insieme al suo migliore amico Martino si occupa del giornale della scuola e vorrebbe in-vitare alle riunioni anche Matteo, un compagno della classe accanto al quale non trova il coraggio di rivolgere la parola. Durante la “Settimana dei mestieri”, i ragazzi incontrano Vittoria, giornalista invitata a tenere una lezione appassionante,...
TUTTO SARÀ PERFETTO
by Lorenzo Marone
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Due giorni possono essere un tempo infinito
Andrea, modello quarantenne single e profondamente immaturo, deve prendersi cura di Libero, suo padre, per un fine settimana. La sorella Marina, infatti, si trova costretta ad andare a trovare, con il marito e le due figliolette, il suocero malato al nord.
Dopo mille raccomandazioni, la famigliola parte e per il protagonista comincia un week end da...
PAOLO BORSELLINO. ESSENDO STATO
by Ruggero Cappuccio
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In Paolo Borsellino essendo Stato, Ruggero Cappuccio focuses on the last moments the Palermitan judge Paolo Borsellino goes through. During these residual burning seconds, he doubts to be still alive and supposes to be already dead. He therefore goes through his whole life from an odd perspective with a strong clarity of mind: his love towards his land, his wife, his mother, his children, the...
IL FIUME TRA DI NOI
by Bijan Zarmandili
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“Non parlavo di me… non so neppure chi sono, se posso vantarmi di avere ancora un’identità. Mi sento come un cane bastardo, un animale ibrido, una pianta su cui sono stati innestati rami di vegetali selvatici. (…) Vedo tanti africani in giro, molti asiatici, giovani venuti chi sa da quale parte del mondo e mi domando se si ritengano ancora africani, asiatici, latinoamericani, o si...
QUELLA METÀ DI NOI
by Paola Cereda
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Matilde has a secret that keeps influencing her choices. She is a retired teacher obliged to get back to work after getting into debt. Her life is split between her outlying neighborhood of Barriera and the centre of Turin, where she daily takes care of an old engineer. She, therefore, finds herself living in between two houses, more than one language, different lives and decisions that still...
SE I PESCI GUARDASSERO LE STELLE
by Luca Ammirati
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Samuele is thirty and he has been collecting failures his whole life. He is a dreamer by profession, unlucky with relationships, always concerned not to be up to the standards. He would like to become a creative advertiser even though his projects are duly rejected. That is why he is a precarious and underpaid reporter during the day, while at night he is in charge of the little Astronomical...
FOCARA DI SANGUE
by Carmelo Greco
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Fòcara di sangue è un romanzo di viaggio e di frontiera ambientato in una parte del Sud Italia facilmente riconoscibile per alcuni temi ricorrenti, come la Xylella (il “batterio killer” che ha fatto strage di ulivi in Puglia) o la fòcara dello stesso titolo, cioè l’enorme pira in onore di Sant’Antonio che viene accesa a metà gennaio in provincia di Lecce. Ne sono al centro Mirko,...
LA COMPAGNIA DELLE ILLUSIONI
by Enrico Ianniello
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His codename is ‘o Mollusco, the Mollusk.
It is extremely important to have a codename if you want to be part of the Company of Illusions. A mellifluous and elusive name, just like the truth behind fiction.
After an acting career poor of satisfactions - the only vaguely important role was the nosey housekeeper Raffaele of the soap opera Tutti a Casa Baselice! - the fifty-year-old Antonio...
MIA
by Eugenia Romanelli
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Mia ha un ammiratore segreto che la fotografa di nascosto e cerca di avvicinarla ogni volta che può, solo che lei ha quattro anni. Vive a Roma con le sue mamme, Valentine e Anna, e da qualche tempo balbetta. C’è qualcosa che non va?
Anna è sempre via per lavoro e per Valentine tenere insieme famiglia e lavoro sta diventando una prova di equilibrismo: è distratta, assente, confusa. Cosa...
CARA NAPOLI
by Lorenzo Marone
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“This is a book I really care about because is the one that speaks about the city I was born and I’ve been living in for over forty years: Naples. It is a collection of my “Granelli”, those short articles I kept writing for “La Repubblica” of Naples during the past three years so as to describe the several facets of this city. I hope this book will help me to make those who don’t...
ANDIAMO A VEDERE IL GIORNO
by Sara Rattaro
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Alice has ruined her marriage and she therefore needs time and space, she needs to put some miles in between herself and her failure. However that morning, while boarding on a flight to Paris, she runs into her mother Sandra.
In the most magical city of the world a mother and a daughter find the way to look at each other again, to deal with a gap in their past and to look for Camilla, the...
SE SON DONNE FIORIRANNO
by Margherita Belardetti
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Elisa, sessantenne di fresca data, bibliotecaria in pensione, è l'ex moglie di un avvocato in carriera che ha buttato la grisaglia alle ortiche. Madre appassionata di una figlia ormai adulta e residente in una grande città del nord Europa, nonché affettuosa proprietaria di una gatta psicolabile, Nina - detta Prozac nei periodi di turbe -, vive le sue giornate con spirito da ragazza. Mille...
BRUCIARE LA FRONTIERA
by Carlo Greppi
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Questo giorno lo si attende tutta la vita. È il diciottesimo compleanno di Francesco: a scuola lo aspettano gli amici. Loro non lo sanno, ma lui sta preparando un viaggio. Perché lo ha promesso a Kappa, il suo migliore amico di sempre: una volta scattata l’ora x sarebbero partiti insieme. Vogliono andare a vedere come è fatta una frontiera. C’è un altro ragazzo, Abdullah – Ab –, di...
LE VOCI DELLE BETULLE
by Eloisa Donadelli
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You don’t know that there are birches that remove their roots during the night, and you would never believe that at night there are trees that walk or become dreams.
Alda Merini
Bernardette Laudis has always lived with an inexplicable weight on her soul, which she tries to ease with the sound of her cello. It is a slender feeling she doesn’t manage to work out, until one day an off-key...
UN RAGAZZO NORMALE
by Lorenzo Marone
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Mimì is 12 years old, wears glasses, has the gab of a know-it-all and an obsession with comics, astronauts and Karate Kid. He lives in a building in Vomero, Naples, where his father works as a doorman. He spends his days either on the sidewalk together with his best friend and street kid Sasà, or in the two-room flat he shares with his parents, grandparents and teenager sister. In 1985, the...
UOMINI CHE RESTANO
by Sara Rattaro
At first they do not even notice each other, each kidnapped by the panorama of Genoa, each of them intent on writing on the clear sky thoughts that are too bad inside. Fosca and Valeria meet by chance in their city, on the roof of a building where both have taken refuge in an attempt to escape the sense of abandonment that sometimes life gives you by surprise, without asking if you feel...
LA RAGAZZA DI HOMS
by Susan Dabbous
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Leila è una ragazza piena di vitalità e coraggio, libera e ribelle. Ma libertà e ribellione non sono qualità apprezzate nel Paese in cui è nata e che ama con tutta se stessa, la Siria. Costretta a rifugiarsi in Libano, Leila abbandona Homs, la sua città, dicendo addio ai bombardamenti ma anche agli amici, alle strade, alle musiche, alle abitudini, alla felicità. Ed è nel campo profughi di...
CHI HA BISOGNO DI TE
by Elisabetta Bucciarelli
There are several ways of falling in love and just as many of ending a relationship. There are men willing to wait, fathers who are looking for the right words to raise their children and then there’s Meri, a young woman with a special gift. Next to her a mother who teaches her how to deal with feelings through Queen’s songs. Meri keeps receiving anonymous handmade notes and while she is...
CONFESSIONI AUDACI DI UN BALLERINO DI LISCIO
by Paola Cereda
Along the shores of Adriatic Sea, where the great river Po takes the shape of a silent and enchanting Delta, you can feel the summer heat, the distant murmur of the sea, the eternal dampness, you can hear the liquidity of the air, of the sounds, and even of the souls. But - and that’s he magic touch of Cereda’s novel - you can hear a music, a music that comes, closer and closer, from a...
VOCE DI LUPO
by Laura Bonalumi
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If the forest could speak, she would tell of two boys who loved to breathe scent of resin and be touched by the Mountain pine needles. If the mountains and the stones had voice, they would say that up there, where the peaks scrape the sky, sometimes the breath breaks and stops. Like the voice of Giacomo, blocked by the grounds that suddenly collapses, like that of his closest friend, who prefers...
L'AMORE ADDOSSO
by Sara Rattaro
«La verità è quasi sempre una storia raccontata a metà.»
Una giovane donna attende con ansia fuori da una stanza d'ospedale. È stata lei ad accompagnare lì d'urgenza l'uomo che ora è ricoverato in gravi condizioni. È stata lei a soccorrerlo in spiaggia, mentre passava per caso, dice. Non dice – non può farlo – che invece erano insieme, che sono amanti. Lo stesso giorno, in un'altra...
MAGARI DOMANI RESTO
by Lorenzo Marone
The brilliant new novel by one of the most powerful Italian authors, published in February 2017.
Luce, a young woman thirty years old, Neapolitan, lives in the Spanish quarters (a Naples neighborhood infiltrated by the Camorra), but she is an honest young fighter, a bit revolutionary, feminist; a strong female character. She is a lawyer, always in jeans, boots and short hair cut in male style....
PRELUDIO A UN BACIO
by Tony Laudadio
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Emanuele is a homeless man, a musician who plays at the corner of the streets. He has rejected every sort of affection and human contact aside from Maria, who works in a bar and takes care of him. One day he wakes up in a hospital after an aggression and notices something inside him is radically changed: his apathy is gone, everything and everyone glow of a new light and he feels the need to fix...
LA FELICITÀ VUOLE ESSERE VISSUTA
by Loredana Limone
IL QUARTO TOMO DELLE AVVENTURE DI BORGO PROPIZIO
La vita ti dà e ti toglie, ti ferisce e ti cura, ti abbatte e ti solleva. E non si ferma mai. Lo sanno bene a Borgo Propizio: dopo il terribile sisma che li ha colpiti nella terra e nel cuore, gli abitanti si impegnano per tornare alla vita e alla serenità e le loro esistenze si incontrano, si scontrano, si intrecciano in maniera come sempre...
EL JARDÍN DE SONOKO
by David Crespo "Izumi"
A work with the deepness and delicacy of Miyazaki's Spirited away or Ende's Momo. And between Alessandro Baricco Silk and Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind.
Japan today. Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. A strange piano with a special sound, an impossible love, an evil woman and a garden blooming in an attic's terrace, all of them have met to try to destroy the thin red thread, the thread of fate, which...
SPLENDI PIÙ CHE PUOI
by Sara Rattaro
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BRIGHT ALL YOU CAN
They teach you not to shine. And you shine instead.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sara Rattaro tells us the true story of Emma, a young woman that after the marriage whit her beloved man, finds herself kidnapped in her own home by her husband. After years suffering this situation and having a baby from her husband, she will get freedom.
A positive message to all women, who are...
LA TRISTEZZA HA IL SONNO LEGGERO
by Lorenzo Marone
SADNESS SLEEPS LIGHTLY
A powerful novel on the extended-opened family of our societies and the influence we receive in our lives from the people who live close to us, shaping our character and assigning us a role. At least until the day when we realize that if we do not want to live a life that is not ours, we must rebel, even to those who love us.
Err Gargiulo, 40, has two fathers, a mother...
LA RESISTENZA DEL MASCHIO
by Elisabetta Bucciarelli
THE MALE RESISTANCE
The man is a successful adult, married to a beautiful woman. He doesn't want children, doesn't like to depend on anyone or anything, he is not interested in sex as itself and in each circumstance of his life, he looks for measure and proportions.
One night, coming back from work, he assists to a car accident. A woman crashes against a lamp post, risking her own life. Her...
UN TERREMOTO A BORGO PROPIZIO
by Loredana Limone
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AN EARTHQUAKE AT HAPPY TOWN
Borgo Propizio sky is a lapis lazuli mosaic and life goes on scene under it. But life, you know, is made of both beautiful and awful things.
A bad day a violent earthquake destroys a large part of the historical centre, throwing into desperation people who so much love their village.
Mayor Felice Rondinella feels disaster like his own personal failure, and...
LE TRE NOTTI DELL'ABBONDANZA
by Paola Cereda
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THE THREE NIGHTS OF ABUNDANCE
Calabria (south Italy) in the mid 80s. Fosco is a village perched upon a rock right on the sea. To reach the beach, you need to venture along a wooden stairway.
Irene Rusto is fourteen and she always holds in her hands an orange notebook on which she draws her particular way of seeing the reality. Among the stern looks of the families, she lives her first love...
LA VITA PRODIGIOSA DI ISIDORO SIFFLOTIN
by Enrico Ianniello
Isidoro Siffotin was born in the small house of Mattinella, a tiny village in the South of Italy. He develops a miraculous skill inherited from his father Quirino (the cross-eyed communist poet inventor of words), who writes love letters to Johann Sebastian Bach and President Pertini; and from Stella, his mother, a pasta-maker who prepares curtains of tagliatelle and bears a secret. Which special...
EL RASTRO DEL CARACOL
by Mari Cruz Vázquez
El rastro del caracol nos adentra en un mundo donde se retratan sin concesiones, las miserias de unos personajes atrapados en un laberinto oscuro de desaliento; un laberinto por el que se arrastran, se retraen, se esconden, dejando a su paso un rastro imposible de borrar.
Cuatro son los protagonistas que entrecruzan sus destinos en una sociedad sórdida y cruel: la Muda, una niña a la que...
COME UN CHIODO NEL MURO
by Tony Laudadio
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Giustino Salvato is a successful criminal lawyer with an enormous problem of anger control which explodes in violent incidents and sudden flares up. Passionately fond of literature and motorbike, full of obsessions and obscure sides, he does an illegal service for some companies, his clients: he acts as an intermediary for the payment of protection...
THE TEMPTATION TO BE HAPPY
by Lorenzo Marone
"La letteratura dovrebbe prendere altre strade. Cosa che Lorenzo Marone fa. E fa benissimo"
Teresa Ciabatti, Corriere della Sera.
Cesare Annunziata potrebbe essere definito senza troppi giri di parole un vecchio e cinico rompiscatole. Settantasette anni, vedovo da cinque, Cesare è un uomo che ha deciso di fregarsene di tutti, dei suoi due figli e dei molti sogni cui ha chiuso la porta in...
SE CHIEDI AL VENTO DI RESTARE
by Paola Cereda
A magical Mediterranean novel by Italian author Paola Cereda, reminiscent of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS by Isabel Allende and L’ISOLA DI ARTURO by Elsa Morante.
Set on a nameless Italian island in the mid-20th century, L’ANNUNCIATA evokes a forgotten world, where the islanders live a traditional life, undisturbed by events on the mainland. They walk barefoot, symbolising their special...
E LE STELLE NON STANNO A GUARDARE
by Loredana Limone
Too many are the facts reshuffling the every-day life of Borgo Propizio and his several inhabitants, such as the evergreen Aunt Letizia, busy to carry on her diary shop together with Belinda, the not-so-sweet but loved niece; Mariolina and Marietta, the two sisters always quarreling and making peace; the roughly refined Ruggero; the Carabinieri Marshall Bartolomeo Saltalamacchia…
Headed from...
UN USO QUALUNQUE DI TE
by Sara Rattaro
Viola, Carlo and Luce are a quiet middle-class family, or at least apparently. Luce is 17-year-old and as such is full of energy and completely projected towards the future.Viola is a distracted mother and wife, full of doubts about her present life and with too many regrets. Carlo, instead, is a caring husband and the core of the family.
One late spring night, almost at dawn, Viola receives...
SULLA SEDIA SBAGLIATA
by Sara Rattaro
Andrea è accusato di aver ucciso Barbara, la fidanzata, in preda a un raptus e sotto l’effetto di stupefacenti. Valeria ha saputo dal giornale che il ragazzo che ama è accusato di aver strangolato la madre. Una donna ha visto uscire di casa la figlia e non sa che sarà per l’ultima volta, mentre Zoe sogna l’”uomo dal naso perfetto” e attende il trapianto… Vicende che si intrecciano...
DESPUÉS Y ANTES DE DIOS
by Octavio Escobar Giraldo
Premio Novela Corta Ciudad de Barbastro
La topografía, las circunstancias de su fundación, los prejuicios determinan cada ciudad de provincia, también sus pecados, piadosamente ocultos.
Manizales está a más de dos mil metros de altura sobre el nivel del mar, en medio de las montañas cafeteras colombianas. Hija de las migraciones y las guerras civiles del siglo XIX, el lugar común...
MEMORIAS DE UN HOMBRE FELIZ
by Darío Jaramillo
He vivido en un tiempo y un lugar en los que todo el mundo se exime sin recato de cumplir la ley, no solo el hampón. Cualquiera –por ejemplo, un tecnócrata rico y aficionado a la relojería–, llegado el momento, llegada la necesidad, encontrará razones para considerar que la ley no se le aplica y procederá en consecuencia.
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EL ESTUPOR Y LA MARAVILLA
by Pablo d'Ors
"Alois Vogel is the guard in an imaginary Expressionist Museum in Koblenz. Over the years, he has watched over its halls and corridors. It is there that he has learnt to observe the paintings and everything that surrounds them, and to notice even the most trivial detail by paying just the slightest attention.
Based on this simplest of plots, Pablo d’Ors constructs "an epopoeia of trivialities...
BRIEF THEORY OF TRAVEL AND THE DESERT
by Cristian Crusat
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"Breve teoría del viaje y el desierto", awarded with the Premio Internacional de Cuentos "Manuel Llano”, 2010 , directly challenges the majority of the accepted conventions in our literature, regarding what constitutes the formal nature of short story writing.
Awarded with the European Literary Prize 2013
The six stories of Breve teoría del viaje y el desierto contemplate the full range...