Books from Italy
108 popular italian books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Italy.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante EN
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Continues the story of Lina and Elena as they push against boundaries in 1970s Italy, where Lina has left her husband and is working in a factory while taking care of her son and Elena has graduated college and published a novel.
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In this novel "about ambition, family, and old-age ... [a] grandfather and grandson match wits as [the elder] heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices"--Amazon.com.
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Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante EN
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"Following her mother's untimely death, Delia sets off on a breathtaking odyssey through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family. Reality is buried in the fertile soil of memory, and Delia digs deep to reconcile the past with the mysterious events leading up to her mother's death. Spurred by a series of anonymous telephone calls, Delia reconstructs her mother's final days and with every new discovery must face the possibility that her mother was not at all the person Delia imagined her to be. To learn the truth and to untangle the knot of l... continue
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Tutto il bello che ci aspetta by Lorenza Gentile IT
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Viviamo in un’epoca in cui niente è impossibile, dunque se le cose non vanno dev’essere per forza colpa nostra: Selene se ne è quasi convinta. Passati i trent’anni, non ha ancora trovato la sua strada: dove ha sbagliato? È stata l’ultima delle sue azioni impulsive, aprire un ristorante che ora è sull’orlo del fallimento, oppure è successo quindici anni fa, quando ha preso la sua prima decisione da adulta? È lì che sono rimaste impigliate le sue aspirazioni? Per scoprirlo, una notte d’estate fugge da Milano verso un paesino nel cuore della Puglia, il posto dove è cresciuta, immersa in una comun... continue
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Vara de neuitat : Plaja by Cesare Pavese RO
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Roman al descoperirii orasului si societatii, Vara de neuitat (1949) are in centru povestea inocentei pierdute a unei orfane, Ginia, o adolescenta de aproape 17 ani care locuieste cu fratele ei, Severino, si lucreaza intr-un atelier de croitorie. Fascinata de Amelia, o tinara de 20 de ani, prostituata care pretinde ca isi cistiga traiul pozind nud pentru pictori, Ginia traieste indoieli, atractia fructului oprit, sentimente contrastante in fata vertijului vietii de adult. Frumusetea cartii sta tocmai in firescul si simplitatea cu care Pavese surprinde nuantele si tresaririle entuziasmului juve... continue
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Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg EN
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From one of Italy's greatest writers, Natalia Ginzburg's beloved novel is "filled with shimmering, risky, darting observation" (Colm Tóibín)