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Recommended domestic fiction books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into domestic fiction here are some domestic fiction books from Italy for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue

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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, d... continue