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The New Yorker: "Ferrante's gift for psychological horror renders it immediate and visceral"
In this brutally frank novel of maternal ambivalence, the narrator, a forty-seven-year-old divorcée summering alone on the Ionian coast, becomes obsessed with a beautiful young mother who seems... -
The Seattle Times: "This superb and scary Italian writer . . . has blown the lid off tempestuous parent-child relations."
If you are looking for uplifting bromides about the intimate mother-daughter bond, do not look to Elena Ferrante's novels. This superb and scary... -
Massimo Carlotto and Amara Lakhous on stage at the Turin book fair
Massimo Carlotto's stage adaptation of his most recent novel, Allah's Christians (Cristiani di Allah) at the Turin Book Fair May 10th. (Video in Italian) -
People on Privilege Hill selected as one of Fresh Air's summer reads
Jane Gardam’s The People on Privilege Hill has been selected by the NPR's Fresh Air as one of their recommended books for summer reading. A story from the collection will soon be available... -
Publishers Weekly: "By turns very funny (particularly in Paloma's sections) and heartbreaking . . . [Barbery's] simple plot and sudden denouement add up to a great deal more than the sum of their parts."
This dark but redemptive novel, an international bestseller, marks the debut in English of Normandy philosophy professor Barbery. Renée Michel, 54 and widowed, is the stolid concierge in an elegant... -
Amara Lakhous's interview with Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto is Italy's foremost noir novelist and a major exponent of the "Mediterranean Noir novel." In 2007 he was a guest at the PEN World Voices festival, and on May 29 of this year... -
Europa Editions at BEA 2008
BEA 2008, May 30th to June 1st. Visit the Europa Editions booth (#2717) in the south hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center to take a peek at what's new at Europa this summer and fall. Kent Carroll... -
Elegance of the Hedgehog
from Me and My Big Mouth Hedgehog I started this book in the knowledge that it had sold over a million copies in its native France. That is a merde-load of books by anyone's standard. For the first... -
Zeroville Shortlisted for Believer Book Award
Steve Erickson's novel Zeroville has been shortlisted for the Believer Magazine Book Award. Each year the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels they thought were the strongest... -
Reading the World 2008
Brought to brilliant life way back in 2005 by Karl Pohrt (Shaman Drum), Chad Post (Open Letter/3%), and Jeff Seroy (FSG) this ingenious initiative, sublime in its simplicity and notable for its effectiveness...