Region: Italy (90 Listed volumes)
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Elena Ferrante
The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set
The complete four-volume boxed set of the New York Times –bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies. Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Nameless Serenade
That autumn it seemed the rain in Naples would never stop, and Commissario Ricciardi found himself having to face not only a homicide but long-buried feelings that have grown thick roots inside him. -
Andrea Camilleri
The Sacco Gang
A "wild west" tale of two brothers who battle both the state and a mafia empire in 1920s Italy, from famed Italian author Andrea Camilleri. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
I Will Have Vengeance
Shortlisted for the 2012 Crime Writers Association Daggers Award -
Alessandro Barbero
The Athenian Women
The Athenian Women offers a powerful vision of class struggle, the subjugation of women by men, and the courage needed to change the course of history. -
Roberto Tiraboschi
The Apothecary's Shop
In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the protagonists of The Apothecary's Shop chase a dream of rebirth, the eternal dream of defeating death -
Nicola Lagioia
Ferocity
Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize, Italy's preeminent prize for fiction, Ferocity is a cinematic suspense novel that also addresses vital social questions, a combination of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, filtered through the fierce Mediterranean vision of Elena Ferrante. -
Elena Ferrante
Frantumaglia
In this collection of writings Ferrante addresses her unwavering decision to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, Italian politics and culture, and the role of the writer (and the publisher) in modern society. -
Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
Suburra
In Ostia, a depressed coastal settlement twenty miles from the powerful and corrupt city of Rome, a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for a billion-dollar payoff.
