Books set in Italy (130)


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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino EN

Rating: 3 (9 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
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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Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante EN

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Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
"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

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
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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Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood EN

Rating: 3.5 (2 votes)
Description:
From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—the "brilliant and funny" story (Joan Didion, bestselling author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean) of a woman whose attempts to escape herself become instead an occasion for confronting the self-deception that has driven her since childhood Joan Foster is a woman with numerous identities and a talent for shedding them at will. She has written trashy gothic romances, had affairs with a Polish count and an absurd avant-garde artist, and played at being a politically engaged partner to her activist husband. After a volume of her ... continue

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Last Summer in the City : A Novel by Gianfranco Calligarich EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Italy flag Italy
Description:
The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman. In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At thir... continue