Books set in Italy (128)
Find more books set in Italy by genre:
Philosophical
Fantasy
Religious
Horror
Short story
Historical
Crime
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
Folklore
Biography
Psychology
Memoir
Travel
Adventure
Political
Adult
Humor
Contemporary fiction
Young Adult
Poetry
Drama
Mystery
Spirituality
Feminism
Essay
Cultural
Self-help
Thriller
111.
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante EN
ItalyDescription:
In this follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, Lila is imprisoned by marriage, while Elena continues her journey of self-discovery, until their friendship, which is at the center of their emotional lives, forces them both to mature into women. Original.
112.
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante EN
Description:
Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, this story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty. Lila and Elena clash, drift apart, reconcile, and clash again, in the process revealing new facets of their friendship.
113.
The Surgeon's Daughter : A Novel by Audrey Blake EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Women's work is a matter of life and death Nora Beady, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children, so her unconventional, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. Under constant scrutiny, Nora's successes are taken for granted; her mistakes used as proof that women aren't suited to the field. Everything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve... continue
Germany115.
The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria EN
Description:
An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As t... continue
116.
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The Winter’s Tale, one of Shakespeare’s very late plays, is filled with improbabilities. Before the conclusion, one character comments that what we are about to see, “Were it but told you, should be hooted at / Like an old tale.” It includes murderous passions, man-eating bears, princes and princesses in disguise, death by drowning and by grief, oracles, betrayal, and unexpected joy. Yet the play, which draws much of its power from Greek myth, is grounded in the everyday. A “winter’s tale” is one told or read on a long winter’s night. Paradoxically, this winter’s tale is ideally seen rather th... continue
117.
Tintenherz by Cornelia Funke DE
Description:
In einer stürmischen Nacht taucht bei Meggie und ihrem Vater Mo ein seltsamer Gast auf. Er warnt die beiden vor einem Mann names Capricorn. Am nächsten Morgen reisen Mo und Meggie überstürzt zu Tante Elinor. Diese verfügt über die kostbarste Bibliothek, die Meggie je gesehen hat. Hier versteckt Mo das Buch, das an der ganzen Aufregung schuld ist. Meggie hat es vor Jahren schon einmal gelesen. Doch jetzt wird es zum Mittelpunkt eines unglaublichen, magischen und atemberaubenden Abenteuers, in dessen Verlauf Meggie in große Gefahr gerät.
118.
Description:
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.
119.
Trieste by Daša Drndić ES
CroatiaDescription:
Haya Tedeschi espera junto a un cesto repleto de cartas, fotografías, recortes, versos, testimonios, listados... A los ochenta y tres años, su historia, reflejo de un pasado turbulento, se ha quebrado ya en mil pedazos que Haya repasa uno a uno: la infancia en Gorizia, en el seno de una familia judía multilingüe, Trieste y el ascenso del totalitarismo, los años de juventud, el cine y el primer amor. Pero también están la guerra, los trenes cerrados y los campos de exterminio, como la antigua arrocera de San Sabba, de la que día y noche sal&... continue
120.
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante EN
Description:
"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