Previews (9 Listed volumes)

Alessandro Barbero

The Athenian Women

2018, pp. 208, $ 17.00
Region: Italy

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.
Andrea Camilleri

The Sacco Gang

2017, pp. 128, $ 14.00
Region: Italy

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.
Jane Gardam

Faith Fox

2017, pp. 272, $ 18.00
Region: Britain

The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.
Anthony Quinn

Freya

2017, pp. 464, $ 19.00
Region: Britain

Set immediately after the end of WWII, Freya explores the lives and friendship of two british females at a time where gender roles were changing in England.
Roberto Tiraboschi

The Apothecary's Shop

2017, pp. 352, $ 18.00
Region: Italy

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
Santiago Gamboa

Return to the Dark Valley

2017, pp. 424, $ 18.00
Region: Colombia

Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential.
Nicola Lagioia

Ferocity

2017, pp. 368, $ 18.00
Region: Italy

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

2017, pp. 400, $ 17.00
Region: Italy

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.
Chantel Acevedo

The Living Infinite

2017, pp. 280, $ 17.00
Region: United States

The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign.