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  • The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

    by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the battle ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

    Life Sentences and Their Geographies

    by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Unspeakable Women

    Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism

    Edited by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Despite the misogynist ideology of Italian Fascism, and contrary to the picture drawn in the most post-war literary histories and anthologies, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of wide publication and both popular and critical recognition for female authors in Italy. Focusing on the cultural pages of three major daily newspapers of the period, Robin Pickering-Iazzi discovered a wealth of ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature

    The first of its kind in English, Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature is a selection of readings from Italian fiction and non-fiction writers on the subject of the Mafia. Among the renowned writers featured are Giovanni Verga, Grazia Deledda, Anna Maria Ortese, Livia De Stefani, and Silvana La Spina, as well as famous witnesses such as Felicia Impastato, Letizia Battaglia, ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Tina, Mafia Soldier

    by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli ...
    Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    A classic of Italian feminist mafia literature about a gender-bending mafiosa and the writer who becomes obsessed with telling her storySicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she terrorizes her hometown of Gela, having made it her mission to join the mafia, an organization traditionally ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Tina, Mafia Soldier

    by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli ...
    Narrated by Antoinette LaVecchia ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    Sicily, 1980s: When she was just eight years old, Tina watched as her father, a member of Cosa Nostra, was murdered in cold blood. Now a teenager, she terrorizes her hometown of Gela, having made it her mission to join the mafia, anorganization traditionally forbidden to women as made members. Nicknamed ’a masculidda, or “the tomboy,” Tina has taken charge of her own gang, and is notorious for her ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    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

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Monster of Florence

    by Douglas Preston ...
    Read the true story that inspired the hit Netflix series! In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Twenty Days of Turin

    A Novel

    Translated by Ramon Glazov ...
    by Giorgio De Maria ...
    **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

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Leopard

    Revised and with new material

    by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ...
    Translated by Archibald Colquhoun ...
    INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIALIn the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Terra-Cotta Dog

    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    Series Book 2 - An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
    “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live ... Read more

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  • Death in Sicily

    The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief

    by Andrea Camilleri ...
    Translated by Stephen Sartarelli ...
    Series series An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
    Collected in one volume—the first three books in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD