Product Description: “From aide to nanny and housekeeper . . . Paolo Giordano examines this unusual relationship in the context of one household of three. . . . Spare, elegant.”–The New York Times   “Like Family. . . demands to be savored. ...read more

Product Description: Based on a true story, The Prince is a “complex, informed, and intelligent saga” (Kirkus Reviews) about the web of love, betrayal, and murder that forged the most powerful criminal organization in history—the Mafia.In this remarkable novel, author Vito Bruschini brilliantly evokes the charismatic figure of Prince Ferdinando Licata, a wealthy Sicilian landowner who uses his personal power and charm to placate Sicilian peasants and fight off Mussolini’s fascists...read more

Cecilia and Claudio are doctors are the same hospital. They eat lunch together almost every day; they talk, sometimes even share secrets. Each is enmeshed in a complicated, painful relationship that has technically ended but isn't really over: she is newly separated, with two small children; he's stuck in the apartment building where he grew up, where his senile mother, not to mention his ex-wife and her new family, all still live. Cecilia and Claudio are attracted to each other: magnetically, powerfully. But life has taught them to treat that attraction with suspicion.Then a chance encounter between Claudio and Cecilia's sister, Silvia, shifts the precarious balance of the relationship between the two colleagues. Claudio begins to recognize the damage caused by his wary stance toward everything around him. He has hidden a hunger for life and experience beneath a veneer of apathy, a mask that also conceals a deep well of anguish. And just when Cecilia comes to the realization that she loves Claudio and is ready to commit to a genuine relationship, fate steps in once again. The complicated tale is unraveled by the son born of this love triangle, a man attempting to understand both himself and his past.In lucid, enchanting prose, supplely rendering into English by Anne Milano Appel, Andrea Canobbio's Three Light-Years sketches a fable of love poisoned by the indecision born of fear, laying bare the dangers of playing it safe when it comes to matters of the heart.

Product Description: Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality...read more

In the aftermath of an artist's murder in 1300 Florence, newly appointed prior Dante Alighieri undertakes his first official investigation, during which he wonders about a recent assembly of seven master scholars and the secret behind the victim's mosaic. Reprint.

In a disused church on the outskirts of Florence, the master craftsman, Ambrogio, is found murdered at the foot of an unfinished mosaic. A young Dante Alighieri is called upon to investigate. He discovers that the church is being transformed into a university at the behest of the new Pope, Bonifacius VIII.

Product Description: "A perfect combination of information and analysis." –Bernard Lewis FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN covers Israel and the Palestinian territories for the Italian magazine Panorama and the Roman newspaper La Stampa. She lives in Rome and Gilo, a suburb of Jerusalem perched on the front lines of the Israeli-Palestininan War...read more

Product Description: Italian writer Cardo Maraini is a cauldron of contradictions. Plagued by guilt over the drowning of his younger brother, he is strangely terrified by life. When the Norwegian woman he loves becomes pregnant, he plunges into a comically disastrous liaison, fleeing from commitment and responsibility...read more

Filled with stunning photographs, a fascinating foray into the life of the most beloved and beautiful Italian actress of all time details the debuts, the fears, the films, and the success of this voluptuous woman who took America, and the world, by storm.

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Product Description: A new erotic thriller by one of Italy's most renowned international authors, set in Rome at the beginning of the new Millennium.