Adult books set in Italy (4)


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1.

The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante's Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

2.

Numero Zero by Umberto Eco EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
From the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder

3.

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
"This novel that shocked audiences in Europe with its unsentimental and unyielding depiction of motherhood, marriage and solitude, tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an "absence of sense" after being abandoned by her husband. Olga's "days of abandonment" become a desperate, dangerous freefall into the darkest places of the soul as she roams the empty streets of a city that she has never learned to love. When she finds herself trapped inside the four walls of her apartment in the middle of a summer heat wave, Olga is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential ... continue