Contains: La parola mamma, Quant'è caro, La ciocira, La paura, Ramole e Remo, Mammarolo and Impataccato. Modern short stories from Rome with a varied gallery of characters.
This novel of suspense is a tragic story of a love that leads to murder and flight into the fantastic Sardinian landscape.
Post war Italy. A love story of the doomed relationship between a young ex-partisan - sentenced to imprisonment for an act which earlier might have been regarded heroic - and his fiancée.Read more
8 stories featuring the famous superintendent Montalbano.
Six detective stories by and about the famous commisssioner Salvo Montalbano. The story takes place in an invented town called Vigàta. To Montalbano the mafia, love, cheating and deceit is ...Read more
The hottest summer of the twentieth century. A tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields. While the adults shelter indoors, six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched...Read more
A beautiful Russian girl has been murdered! She had a past as a prostitute, but was married into a rich family. A group of women, knowing the girl well, give evidence about the murder and help sol...Read more
The introvert and neurotic 14 year old Lorenzo hides for a week in the basement. He barricades himself with cokes, tinned food and horror novels to enjoy his solitude without having to confront hi...Read more
Year 406 B.C. The village of Akragas surrenders to the people of Cartagena. Kalebas goes free and hides in an underground passage with his soldier
1909: one of the coins are found by a doc...Read more
A selection of short stories by the famous Italian author, who won the Nobel-prize in 1934.
The beautiful innkeeper, Mirandolina, lives in Florence. She has several suiters, Il Marchese, il Conte and Fabrizio. Classic tale/play by Carlo Goldoni.
We follow a woman in Sardinia from the Second World War and until the present day. She has to marry against her will, since peope consider her to be mad. She wants to find real love - she does fin...Read more
L'anziano notaio Michele Riotta, di Agrigento, riceve un giorno una lettera da una giovane e misteriosa signora, Alma Corradi, che gli chiede notizie di un libro scritto da lui tanti anni fa sul p...Read more