Books from Italy
108 popular italian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
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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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino EN
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Leads you through many different books including a detective adventure, a romance, a satire, an erotic story, a diary, and a quest.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino EN
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Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino’s masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book’s central character. Based on a witty analogy between the reader’s desire to finish the story and the lover’s desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book—IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of course—are constantly and comically frustrated. ... continue
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Il deserto dei tartari by Dino Buzzati IT
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Ai limiti del deserto, immersa in una sorta di stregata immobilità, sorge la Fortezza Bastiani, ultimo avamposto dell'Impero affacciato sulla frontiera con il grande Nord. È lì che il tenente Drogo consuma la propria esistenza nella vana attesa del nemico invasore. Che arriverà, ma troppo tardi per lui. Pubblicato nel 1940, "Il deserto dei Tartari" è "il libro della vita" di Dino Buzzati: nell'esistenza sospesa di Giovanni Drogo, infatti, i riti di un'aristocrazia militare decadente si mischiano a gerarchia, obbedienza e all... continue
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In Search of Amrit Kaur : A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World by Livia Manera Sambuy EN
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian writer embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi. On a sweltering day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What’s written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it’s said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she di... continue
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Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante EN
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"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by editors at the Guardian, turning the writing process into a kind of prolonged interlocution; the subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the adaptation of her novels to film and TV. As she said in her final column: "I have written as an author of novels, taking on ... continue
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Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino EN
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In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
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La variante di Lüneburg by Paolo Maurensig PT
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Med tråde tilbage til tiden før 2. verdenskrig fortælles om to jævnaldrende skakgenier, en jøde og en arier, som gennem skakspillet får afgørende indflydelse på hinandens skæbne