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Lola Lafon
Reeling
Award-winning author, Lola Lafon continues her exploration of the psyches of young girls–their fragility, their resilience. Fontenay, a Parisian suburb, 1984. Cléo is 12 when her parents prod her into taking ballet classes. She drops out after a long year of feeling lost, not classy... -
Nicola Lagioia
The City of the Living
From the winner of the Strega Prize, a spellbinding investigation of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history and a journey into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human soul. -
Nicola Lagioia
The City of the Living
From the winner of the Strega Prize, a spellbinding investigation of one of the most vicious crimes in recent Italian history and a journey into the darkest corners of Rome and of the human soul. -
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. -
Amara Lakhous
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
At once a bittersweet comedy and a drama of racial identity, this book brings to life the hilarious imbroglios of the modern metropolis. -
Amara Lakhous
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (Bilingual Edition)
The immigrant tenants of a building in Rome offer skewed accounts of a murder in this prize-winning satire by the Algerian-born Italian author ( Publishers Weekly). -
Amara Lakhous
The Prank of the Good Little Virgin of Via Ormea
In an Italy of the future, colorful characters are portrayed in limpid but lively prose. Bittersweet, like any self-respecting Italian comedy, The Hoax is a Pirandellian exploration of identity in today's multicultural, polyglot societies. -
Amara Lakhous
Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet
“Do we have an Italian Camus on our hands? Just possibly... No recent Italian novel so elegantly and directly confronts the ‘new Italy.’”—Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer -
Amara Lakhous
Divorce Islamic Style
A literary commedia all'italiana about love and terrorism from the author of Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio -
Amara Lakhous
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
A shrewd mix of social satire and murder mystery.