Books from Italy
249 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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A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig EN
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A small village full of aspiring writers + The devil in the form of a hot-shot publisher = A refined and engaging literary fable on narcissism, vainglory and human weakness
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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN
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"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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A propósito de las mujeres by Natalia Ginzburg ES
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Mujeres con sombrero y sin sombrero, jóvenes y viejas, maquilladas o con la cara recién lavada. Ellas, tan solas o con demasiada gente a su alrededor; con hijos que hacen preguntas molestas o amantes que llegan, te usan, saludan y se van. Mujeres que tarde o temprano se sienten malqueridas, aunque anden por la calle pisando fuerte y mirando coquetas el reflejo de su cuerpo en el escaparate de alguna tienda.
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A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini EN
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Not far from the splendour of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants from village and countryside, lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world. A new generation emerges, full of unreal hopes, wily and resourceful, brutal and vulnerable. A Violent Life, first published in Italy in 1959, is the story of that generation. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life is an uncanny fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold. It is the story of Tommaso Puzzilli, a s... continue
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Accabadora by Michela Murgia EN
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The award winning Accabadora is an exceptional English–language debut, written with intriguing subtlety reflecting a sensual picture of local Italian life and death in villages during the 1950's. A time where family ties and obligations still decide much of life's ebb and flow. A must read for those who love a touch of the unusual. Formerly beautiful and at one time betrothed to a fallen soldier, Bonaria Urrai has a long held covenant with the dead. Midwife to the dying, easing their suffering and sometimes ending it, she is revered and feared in equal measure as the village's Accabadora. When... continue
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo EN
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In its first two years of production in Italy, Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.
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Adua by Igiaba Scego EN
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A searing novel about a young immigrant woman's dream of freedom in Rome and the legacies of her African past.
