Lies and Sorcery
By: Elsa Morante
4.16
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the…
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1. Don't Look at Me Like That
By: Diana Athill
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectabl… read more
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2. Una donna
By: Sibilla Aleramo , Maria Corti
3.84
Format: 640 pages,
Questo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo e del 1906. La sua immediata fortuna in Italia e nei paesi in cui… read more
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3. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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4. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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5. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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- italy
"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
6. Gli indifferenti
By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore
3.88
Format: 373 pages,
Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more
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7. L'arte della gioia
By: Goliarda Sapienza
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more
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8. Baumgartner
By: Paul Auster
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more
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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"-Paul Auster, Baumgartner
9. L'età fragile
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
3.73
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more
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- italian literature
10. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
11. The Extinction of Irena Rey
By: Jennifer Croft
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more
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"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey
12. The Fawn
By: Magda Szabó
4.18
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Eszter Encsy, a now accomplished actress, finds herself thinking about her impoverished and frustra… read more
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- 20th century
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13. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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14. Missitalia
By: Claudia Durastanti
3.73
Format: 354 pages, ebook
Amalia Spada è un’avventuriera lontana dai tumulti che agitano la nazione che sta per nascere; una … read more
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- italian literature
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15. Nessuno torna indietro
By: Alba de Céspedes
3.86
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
224.copie, un film, innumerevoli critiche, trenta edizioni straniere, continuamente ristampate. "A … read more
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"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro
"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro
16. Her Side of the Story
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.07
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more
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17. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- womens
- literary fiction
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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
18. Simpatía
By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more
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19. Lies and Sorcery
By: Elsa Morante
4.16
Format: 800 pages, Paperback
Elsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century—Natalia Ginzburg said she was the… read more
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20. The House on Via Gemito
By: Domenico Starnone
3.65
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico S… read more
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21. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
By: Carla Lonzi
4.28
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
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"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
22. A Dictator Calls
By: Ismail Kadare
3.14
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more
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"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls
23. Happiness, as Such
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its brink—created … read more
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"This life now has nothing to equal to the places and moments we passed through to get here"-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
"So I wasn’t there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits."-Natalia Ginzburg, Happiness, as Such
24. Guerra di infanzia e di Spagna
By: Fabrizia Ramondino
3.47
Format: 504 pages, Paperback
Titita è una bambina curiosa e vivace che, a causa degli impegni diplomatici del padre, si trova a … read more
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25. Un inverno freddissimo
By: Fausta Cialente
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
È un inverno freddissimo quello del 1946 a Milano, un inverno molto duro tra le macerie. Una vecchi… read more
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26. Una minima infelicità
By: Carmen Verde
3.42
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"Una minima infelicità" è un romanzo vertiginoso. Una nave in bottiglia che non si può smettere di … read more
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27. The Singularity (New York Review Classics)
By: Dino Buzzati
3.53
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
In this prophetic allegory about artificial intelligence by a renowned figure of twentieth-century … read more
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28. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
29. L'università di Rebibbia
By: Goliarda Sapienza
4.12
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
"Ho rubato a una di queste pseudo-signore per punirla. O per punirmi?" Così, per una manciata di gi… read more
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30. The Anthropologists
By: Aysegül Savas
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more
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