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P Creagh

Translations by P Creagh

by Claudio Magris
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Danubio

Danube is not exactly a work of fiction but the story of a great river and of a major civilisation. It’s also, more modestly, a book that speculates about how it might be possible to tell such a story, (more...)

The Lost Years [Buy Direct]

by Vitaliano Brancati
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Gli anni perduti

Brancati was a disillusioned Sicilian fascist when he came to write The Lost Years, which was first published (in a rapidly suppressed magazine) at the height of the fascist era in 1938. The ‘lost years’ are the years of youth and hope, (more...)

Bell’antonio [Buy Direct]

by Vitaliano Brancati
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Bell’Antonio

Written by a Sicilian and set in Sicily, this book tells the bizarre story of Antonio, a young lady-killer whose dashing good looks allow him to exploit to the full the local conventions about male sexual prowess — the idea of the gallo (cock). (more...)

Night’s Lies [Buy Direct]

by Gesualdo Bufalino
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Le menzogne della notte

Night’s Lies is a historical novel that deals with the lives and adventures of revolutionaries in an age of conspirators and Carbonari (Eighteenth-century revolutionaries), a world of vast political and intellectual agitation. (more...)

Blind Argus [Buy Direct]

by Gesualdo Bufalino
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Argo il cieco

Six Memos for the Next Millenium

by Italo Calvino
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Lezioni americane, sei proposte per

Girl in a Turban [Buy Direct]

by Marta Morazzoni
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: La ragazza col turbante

Drawn from a series of sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth-century scenarios involving characters in middle or old age, the best of these stories really seem to capture fragments of past lives. (more...)

Day of Judgement [Buy Direct]

by Salvatore Satta
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: Il giorno del giudizio

The Chimera [Buy Direct]

by Sebastiano Vassalli
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: La chimera

A historical novel which is very different from the tosh historical romances that clog the bookshops and public libraries of England and America. In fact the opposite of a ‘romance’ in its story of a beautiful, (more...)

The Keeper of Ruins [Buy Direct]

by Gesualdo Bufalino
Translated by P Creagh
Original title: L’uomo invaso