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  • Chronicle Of A Betrayal

    by Leo Augliera ...
    Translated by Phil Stanway ...
    Chronicle of a Betrayal is a tale set in two different historical periods and places: in Rome in 1944, after the American landing at Anzio, and in Brooklyn in the early 1980s.The protagonist is a sixty-year-old Italian-American living in Brooklyn. His orderly life is upended by a young robber’s intrusion into his apartment. The event triggers a whirlwind of memories taking him back to the war ... Read more

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  • The Bad Bear Tavern

    by Leo Augliera ...
    Translated by Barbara Maher ...
    This is the story of Marco, a journalist who has lost his way after his wife was raped and then her suicide. Desperation and the desire for change take him to environments far from his world. He finds himself, almost unwittingly, frequenting the slums of his city and a low-class dive, The Bad Bear Tavern, where he meets a neglected humanity living on the edge of legality, made up largely of non-EU ... Read more

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    Translated by Jamie McKendrick ...
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  • The Lying Life of Adults

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  • Madonna in a Fur Coat

    Translated by Maureen Freely, Alexander Dawe ...
    The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing world'A heart-breaker . . . it has the kind of indefinably powerful impact of The Great Gatsby' Observer‘Deeply moving … transformative … a love story that I actually love’ Elif Shafak'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to ... Read more

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  • The Shape of Water

    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    Series Book 1 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
    The Shape of Water is the first book in the sly, witty, and engaging Inspector Montalbano mystery series with its sardonic take on Sicilian life.Silvio Lupanello, a big-shot in Vigàta, is found dead in his car with his pants around his knees. The car happens to be parked in a part of town used by prostitutes and drug dealers, and as the news of his death spreads, the rumors begin. Enter Inspector ... Read more

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  • What Belongs to You

    A Novel

    Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction • A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction • A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize • A New York Times ... ... Read more

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  • Darkness at Noon

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    The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.In print ... Read more

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  • The Twenty Days of Turin

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    Translated by Ramon Glazov ...
    **An NPR Best Book of the YearVulture • “15 Must-Read Translated Books From the Past 5 Years”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 ... Read more

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  • Forbidden Notebook

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    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
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  • Seven Seasons in Siena

    My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

    by Robert Rodi ...
    Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual ... Read more

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  • The Succesor

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    by Ismail Kadare ...
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