Re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, the author forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience.

Thirty-three-year old Daniel, heir to the checkering fortunes of the Sonninos, inherits his grandfather's extravagant passions and his father's glum servility, and falls victim to a crippling infatuation with Gaia, the fountainhead of his erotic fantasies and fetishes.

Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler who robs hapless men picked up in trendy nightclubs of Bologna. It's easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of political blackmail. She is now pursued by two secret service operatives, a goon hired by the blackmailer and the police, in this crime adventure.

Product Description: An unprecedented exodus that brought millions of Italians to the New World, the Great Migration has been studied until now mainly in its historical, social, and ethnographical dimensions. Scholars of literature, on the contrary, have neglected this field, despite the rich and varied literary fabric to be found in the teeming Little Italies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...read more

Product Description: Photographer Thomas Struth (b. 1954), one of the most intriguing, challenging, and gifted artists to emerge from Europe in the past two decades, has created a beautiful and distinctive body of images depicting the world - its buildings, people, society, and culture - in its present moment of perpetual change...read more

Product Description: When it appeared in hardcover, Lo’s Diary was an instant literary sensation. An answer to Vladimir Nabokov’s legendary Lolita, the novel is told not from the point of view of the seducer, Humbert Humbert, but of the young girl herself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is the most comprehensive publication ever produced on the work of American artist Barbara Kruger. Kruger, one of the most influential artists of the last three decades, uses pictures and words through a wide variety of media and sites to raise issues of power, sexuality, and representation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An unfinished novel by the murdered Italian author and filmmaker focuses on Carlo, a left-wing Italian Catholic working for the state-controlled oil company, a man who becomes obsessed with satisfying his perverse, insatiable sexual passions.

Product Description: A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture. The thread of representation ties together the work of the 30 artists included in the book, encompassing such issues as allegory, appropriation, and commodification, the role of the artist, and the functions of authorship and originality in vesting meaning in art...read more