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English
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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Florence, 1965. A man is found dead in his home, a pair of scissors stuck in his throat. Only one thing is known about him - he was a loan shark who ruined and blackmailed the vulnerable men and women who would come to him for help. Inspector Bordelli prepares to launch a murder investigation but the case will be a tough one for him, arousing mixed emotions: the desire for justice competing with a deep hostility for the victim.
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English
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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Enthralling their failing industrial town on the coast of Italy during a summer when they discover their budding sexuality, adolescents Anna and Francesca are separated by a test of their friendship and eventually discover that they must reconnect to escape small-town destinies.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Qué sencillo y bonito habría sido no tener sexualidad! Un grupo de antiguos alumnos de una prestigiosa escuela privada cometen un crimen brutal. En la misma época, Edoardo Albinati también estudiaba en esa escuela de sacerdotes católicos. Durante cuarenta años ha guardado el secreto de aquella mala educación, y ahora lo afronta sin tapujos. El resultado es una novela extraordinaria, que trata del sexo, la religión y la violencia, del dinero,...
Author
Series
Inspector Bordelli mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An epic historical novel that chronicles the birth and rise of fascism in Italy, witnessed through the eyes of its founder, the terrifyingly charismatic figure who would become one of the most notorious dictators of the twentieth century, Benito Mussolini"--
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Series
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English
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Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up -- a prison...
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter, the city never fails to instill in her the pain of longing, a desire to belong. A place she wants to call home despite being l'americano or the American. For Heddi's group of university friends,...
14) Limbo
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Afghan War veteran Manuela Paris returns to her hometown near Rome, where she struggles against the flashbacks and pain resulting from a bloody attack that left her seriously injured.
16) The snack thief
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Series
Language
English
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Suspecting a link between the murder of an elderly man and the shooting of a fisherman, Inspector Montalbano encounters impoverished housekeeper and sometime prostitute Karina, whose young son's life is endangered after she disappears.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy-written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours-about poor children from the south sent to live with families in the north to survive deprivation and the harsh winters. Though Mussolini and the fascists have been defeated, the war has devastated Italy, especially the south. Seven-year-old Amerigo lives with his mother Antonietta...
Author
Series
Storytella volume 124
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
20) A beam of light
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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