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  • A Man of Few Words

    The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi

    by Carlo Greppi ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    'Nobody knows how much I owe that man,' Primo Levi said of the bricklayer who saved his life at Auschwitz. 'I could never repay him.'Levi was referring to Lorenzo Perrone, who for six months risked his own life to smuggle food, clothing and letters to Levi and other prisoners. Without Perrone, Levi could not have survived to write 'If This Is a Man, one of the most influential memoirs by a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Family Lexicon

    Translated by Jenny McPhee ...
    A close-knit family resists the rise of fascism in Mussolini’s Italy in this WW2 historical fiction classic that blends family memoir with fiction—one of the most famous European post-war novels of all time.“A glowing light of Italian literature.” —The New York Times“Life-changingly good.” —ElleAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • This Has Happened

    An Italian Family in Auschwitz

    by Piera Sonnino ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    National Jewish Book Awards Finalist. "Concise, restrained, and tightly written, a look from the inside of the Holocaust out." — Entertainment WeeklyFive years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in 2005 in Italy and first published in English in 2006, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Mussolini's Daughter

    The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel.**Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Bold and Dangerous Family

    The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

    From the bestselling author of A Train in Winter**, the story of the Rosselli family, whose courage standing up to Mussolini's fascism helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars.**"I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a newspaper: they closed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to abandon it. I had—as I still do—dreams, dignity, ideals: to defend them I was sent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Pike

    Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

    THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADEWINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARThe story of Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, daredevil – and Fascist.In September 1919 Gabriele D’Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern day Croatia. His intention – to establish a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Primo Levi's Resistance

    Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

    A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Last Leopard

    A life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    by David Gilmour ...
    In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of the Sicilian Lampedusa family, died impoverished and unknown, leaving behind the manuscript of a book he had recently finished. The following year the book, The Leopard, was published in Italy and has since been widely translated and recognized as one of the great novels of the twentieth century. For over a quarter of a century, the reclusive man's ... Read more

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  • Botticelli's Secret

    The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

    by Joseph Luzzi ...
    **One of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year"A lively book.…[Luzzi] brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the characters who helped resurrect Botticelli." —Max Norman, Wall Street Journal**Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blood and Power

    The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

    by John Foot ...
    'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war.In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Italo Calvino

    Letters, 1941–1985

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy

    Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD