The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and...
Ferocity
Ferocity, winner of the Strega prize in 2015, is an exhilirating, ambitious, and vivid work of...
If on a winter’s night a traveller
"The novel begins in a railway station, a locomotive huffs, steam from a piston covers the opening...
Like Family
Giordano, a physicist and mathematician before he became a writer of fiction, writes of love,...
The Breaking of a Wave
Italian seaside resorts are perhaps not so different from towns like Blackpool or Skegness, except...
The Measure of a Man
Tuscan author and chemist Marco Malvaldi began writing in 2007 and is probably best known for his quirky detective series featuring barman Massimo and his elderly clientele-cum-sleuths at the Bar Lume.









