Product Description: Renzo's story is a neglected fragment of the Holocaust. Evading the horrors of death camps and gas chambers, he tells of the Jews' everyday scramble for survival in Nazi-occupied Italy. It is the story of a young boy on the run, gradually acclimating to an unthinkable reality...read more

Product Description: Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public...read more

Product Description: "I always thought that [building] bridges is the best job there is because roads go over bridges, and without roads we'd still be like savages. In short, bridges are like the opposite of borders, and borders are where wars start." --Primo Levi, 'La chiave a stella' (The Wrench)Primo Levi (1919-1987) was one of Italy's most distinguished writers...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes the ways in which women were viewed by men through a variety of literary and other discourses, from the Divine Comedy to the 20th century. A further dimension is provided by tracing the evolution of the cultural and social identity of women as perceived by women themselves...read more