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The Fall [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus

The Outsider [Buy Direct]

by Albert Camus

The Manzoni Family [Buy Direct]

by Natalia Ginzburg
Translated by Marie Evans
Original title: La famiglia Manzoni

Natalia Ginzburg herself said of this work about the family of Alessandro Manzoni, author of the great Italian classic The Betrothed;

‘I have tried to piece together the history of the Manzoni family; I wanted to rebuild it, recompose it,

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All Our Yesterdays [Buy Direct]

by Natalia Ginzburg
Original title: Tutti i nostri ieri

Italian Stories [Buy Direct]

by Robert A (Ed) Hall

Sweet Days of Discipline [Buy Direct]

by Fleur Jaeggy
Translated by T Parks
Original title: Beati anni di castigo

This is the evocation of a self-absorbed childhood in an atmosphere bleached by memory and the passage of the years. The narrator awaits her release from a dull boarding school in which everything seems to have been programmed and pre-ordained. (more...)

Leopard, the with a Memory and Two Stories [Buy Direct]

by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Translated by A.Colquhoun
Original title: Il gattopardo, Racconti

Christ Stopped at Eboli [Buy Direct]

by Carlo Levi
Translated by F Frenaye
Original title: Christo si è fermato a Eboli

Christ Stopped at Eboli is perhaps one of the great books of our century. Its effective, convincing humanism seeks to breed understanding and widen mental horizons. Half—anthropology and half-literature, (more...)

If Not Now, When? [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: Se non ora, quando?

The Wrench [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by William Weaver
Original title: La chiave a stella

Moments of Reprieve [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by Ruth Feldman
Original title: Lilit e altri racconti (mostly)

Like the Drowned and the Saved and If This is a Man this is one of the series of books Primo Levi wrote about his and others’ experience of the German death camps. Levi strove, as all men and women with any social awareness must, (more...)

The Periodic Table [Buy Direct]

by Primo Levi
Translated by R Rosenthal
Original title: Il sistema periodico

The Periodic Table is an unusual and intriguing book in which Primo Levi’s double vocation of industrial chemist and writer find themselves in happy alliance. In its twenty-one short pieces named after different elements of the periodic table (Argon, Zinc, Carbon etc. (more...)

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